Althea Gibson quote: "I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so."

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
ALTHEA GIBSON

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to ...
ALTHEA GIBSON

I had to fight for what I achieved.
ALTHEA GIBSON

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
ALTHEA GIBSON

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life...
ALTHEA GIBSON

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored secti...
ALTHEA GIBSON

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
ALTHEA GIBSON

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
ALTHEA GIBSON

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of p...
ALTHEA GIBSON

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfu...
ALTHEA GIBSON

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
ALTHEA GIBSON

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title succe...
ALTHEA GIBSON

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required...
ALTHEA GIBSON

The SA president should really be the person who relays the views of the student body to the adminis...
ALTHEA TUPPER

I think that it's really necessary for college presidents to be excited about the SA and to come to ...
ALTHEA TUPPER

The hype surrounding the SA needs to be improved. People need to know that it's not just dealing wit...
ALTHEA TUPPER

[We need to] really get the senators really excited to bring [ideas from the forums] back to their c...
ALTHEA TUPPER

The SA president should really be the person who relays the views of the student body to the adminis...
ALTHEA TUPPER

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have...
RALPH GIBSON

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can ...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, on...
RALPH GIBSON

One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am a...
RALPH GIBSON

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally ...
RALPH GIBSON

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no on...
RACHEL GIBSON

I write romance because I love to read romance.
RACHEL GIBSON

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
RACHEL GIBSON

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
RACHEL GIBSON

The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn&...
RACHEL GIBSON

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the book...
RACHEL GIBSON

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
RACHEL GIBSON

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to t...
DEBBIE GIBSON

If you have a player that can (lead) both in the dugout and on the field, it's like having an extra ...
ALAN GIBSON

The advent of a cultural center would help us greatly.
ALAN GIBSON

It's what the downtown area needs. A bit more culture. The advent of a culture center could benefit ...
ALAN GIBSON

I was pleased that we used the whole field to hit. We sprayed the ball and hit the ball where it was...
ALAN GIBSON

We've definitely made the transition from being the hunter to the hunted. When I ordered our uniform...
ALAN GIBSON

This would represent a significant reprioritization of expenditures given that the fiscal year is al...
ALAN GIBSON

He was sharp. For the most part, he worked ahead in the count and challenged the batters.
ALAN GIBSON

This is Cunis at the Vauxhall End. Cunis - a funny sort of name. Neither one thing nor the other.
ALAN GIBSON

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mam...
WILLIAM GIBSON

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made l...
TYRESE GIBSON

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
MEL GIBSON

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyo...
ANDREA GIBSON

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be ...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study danc...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables.
Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a...
ANDREA GIBSON

Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
WILLIAM GIBSON

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
MEL GIBSON

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
WILLIAM GIBSON

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MEL GIBSON

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete i...
BOB GIBSON

Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you ...
SHANE GIBSON

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
BOB GIBSON

A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest.
BOB GIBSON

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
MEL GIBSON

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a l...
MEL GIBSON

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we lear...
WILLIAM GIBSON

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for...
WILLIAM GIBSON

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want...
MEL GIBSON

Moving on is not closure. It's not neat, and it's not about turning the page. It is about mo...
THOMAS GIBSON

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistake...
MEL GIBSON

I believe it's extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your traini...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a...
MEL GIBSON

I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terror...
MEL GIBSON

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's...
MEL GIBSON

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Crea...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

If there is no more bandwidth available, the system needs to recognize that and not admit another ca...
BEN GIBSON

To secure an entire enterprise, offer guest access, and voice over WLAN, you need pervasive coverage...
BEN GIBSON

Over the last year, we've seen a sharp increase in our enterprise customer base toward voice, expand...
BEN GIBSON

To secure an entire enterprise, offer guest access, and voice over WLAN, you need pervasive coverage...
BEN GIBSON

Over the course of the next two to three quarters, we expect to see the new features baked into clie...
BEN GIBSON

I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel.
THOMAS GIBSON

There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the mars...
THOMAS GIBSON

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to ciga...
WILLIAM GIBSON

You might want to be able to close a chapter of your life, but I don't believe that you ever do ...
THOMAS GIBSON

Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.
THOMAS GIBSON

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Un...
WILLIAM GIBSON

You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.
CHRIS GIBSON

The cool thing is when she sends.
ANDREW GIBSON

It works like a normal fax machine where the secret sauce is in our servers here at headquarters in ...
ANDREW GIBSON

Investments are also being made on the solutions front, with organizations like HCL developing speci...
ANDREW GIBSON

The outsourcing model has changed pretty profoundly over the last three years. Outsourcing today is ...
ANDREW GIBSON

It was all on account of the goaltending. Both goalies played really well and both teams went hard, ...
ANDREW GIBSON

Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch perio...
ANDREW GIBSON

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rid...
THOMAS GIBSON

A lot of my inspiration came from the kids. But then other things; like the news, everything is pret...
ANDREA GIBSON

He is over in Iraq now, ... I worry every day when I wake up. 'How's he doing? I haven't heard from ...
ANDREA GIBSON

All the students were in charge of interviewing, writing, brainstorming ideas and designing.
ANDREA GIBSON

The interesting aspect of this publication is that it was produced and written by undergraduate stud...
ANDREA GIBSON

The purpose of Engage is to raise awareness and promote undergraduate research among the student bod...
ANDREA GIBSON

Political poems are love poems, and then love poems can be political in this society where people ca...
ANDREA GIBSON

This year we were given a one-time fund for this special edition of Engage. We hope to secure fundin...
ANDREA GIBSON

If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the patte...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more ...
MEL GIBSON

I want to drive down health care costs.
CHRIS GIBSON

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to ...
WILLIAM GIBSON

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them i...
MEL GIBSON

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future...
WILLIAM GIBSON

'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

Importantly, rather than being solely concerned with U.N. approval, the president must come first to...
CHRIS GIBSON

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want lis...
WILLIAM GIBSON

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
WILLIAM GIBSON

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had th...
THOMAS GIBSON

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even i...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

I remember driving home from a movie - it wasn't 'Halloween' but another one, maybe the ...
THOMAS GIBSON

She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everythi...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the sam...
RACHEL GIBSON

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '9...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obs...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the ...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy...
MEL GIBSON

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren ...
WILLIAM GIBSON

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...
WILLIAM GIBSON

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time,...
WILLIAM GIBSON

It's disappointing to lose any qualified individual that was interested in this job, and that we wer...
BRIAN GIBSON

We take the simple view that, whether they are set up as a trust or a company, it makes sense that t...
BRIAN GIBSON

Ron Cranford is trying to make heroes out of people who have done some really evil things. The whole...
BRIAN GIBSON

The usher will tell me to sit down 30 to 40 times each game, but I can't. I'm motivated.
BRIAN GIBSON

I'll take off work (today). No going to work. I won't be able to speak.
BRIAN GIBSON

We had to do something special for opening night,
BRIAN GIBSON

[Keeping CEOs from making dumb decisions has won fans among Canada's biggest money managers.] In the...
BRIAN GIBSON

Generally we don't like them as a basic principle. In some cases it is working reasonably well from ...
BRIAN GIBSON

Some of them are extremely onerous.
BRIAN GIBSON

I don't come in with the desire to change anything particular or with a special vision to go anywher...
BRIAN GIBSON

The most important thing to us is accessibility to the offices by our clients. And our clients love ...
BILL GIBSON

It is about time we did something in this city for seniors.
BILL GIBSON

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels....
BILL GIBSON

Network General is in an enviable position. The company has the strongest portfolio of network and a...
BILL GIBSON

Pluto is so unlike any planet we've ever visited. It's this strange little duck, sitting out there, ...
BILL GIBSON

If a family has not been accustomed to separation of parents, then negotiating ... and adding anothe...
BRENT GIBSON

Some people who enter into a union later in life could benefit.
BRENT GIBSON

Some adult children will oppose a parent getting married for various reasons.
BRENT GIBSON

Sometimes people enter these later-life marriages with expectations of traveling and doing fun thing...
BRENT GIBSON

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Si...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving techn...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, b...
MEL GIBSON

The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above...
GIBSON WINTER

The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should reall...
WILLIAM GIBSON

Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer...
THOMAS GIBSON

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dr...
DEBBIE GIBSON

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are ba...
WILLIAM GIBSON

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion...
MEL GIBSON

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterren...
CHRIS GIBSON

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream Ame...
WILLIAM GIBSON

We picked viruses known to cross the placenta and get into the baby.
CATHERINE GIBSON

Herpes group B nucleic acids were found more often in neonatal blood spots of babies who were diagno...
CATHERINE GIBSON

We are gaining more understanding of the pathology and mechanisms behind the development of cerebral...
CATHERINE GIBSON

The risk of cerebral palsy is nearly doubled with exposure to the herpes B viruses.
CATHERINE GIBSON

This research underlines the fact that yet another antenatal cause of cerebral palsy has been identi...
CATHERINE GIBSON

The risk of cerebral palsy was nearly doubled with exposure to certain herpes viruses, including the...
CATHERINE GIBSON

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested i...
THOMAS GIBSON

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function wit...
MEL GIBSON

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.
MEL GIBSON

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated ...
KIRK GIBSON

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
WILLIAM GIBSON

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
ERIC GIBSON

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief ins...
ANDREA GIBSON

I can't wait until the new one is built. New is good.
BOB GIBSON

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
BOB GIBSON

The Bay said that a number of people were doing their due diligence, so those are quite logical bidd...
BOB GIBSON

I think he (Zucker) would be happy either way. We're getting close to the deadline.
BOB GIBSON

When you get a good cold snap in December and then it warms up and snows on top of the ice, it is re...
BOB GIBSON

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudic...
BOB GIBSON

It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to ...
BOB GIBSON

It wasn't like that when I started out in Omaha (in 1957). I walked into the clubhouse here and I re...
BOB GIBSON

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is...
BOB GIBSON

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
BOB GIBSON

I think it's unreasonable for a leader to get a raise when other things are being cut. The salary sh...
RON GIBSON

I know what kind of coach he is and how he approaches the game. I had some success under him before,...
AARON GIBSON

liberals don't want black people to think about abortion.
JOHN GIBSON

NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a norther...
CHRIS GIBSON

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ...
MEL GIBSON

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
MEL GIBSON

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it&...
MEL GIBSON

For working-class families and small businesses... we have got to find ways to lower energy costs.
CHRIS GIBSON

Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it wo...
CHRIS GIBSON

What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman'...
CHRIS GIBSON

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught...
CHRIS GIBSON

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it'...
MEL GIBSON

What we are doing there is trying to remove it from that source. We have our ground water treatment ...
CANDACE GIBSON

He was a soldier, a Marine...
TYRESE GIBSON

There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary.
THOMAS GIBSON

We have sent our condolences via our chairman (David Morgan), who is with the PCB chairman in Austra...
COLIN GIBSON

We have sent our condolences via our chairman David Morgan, who is with the PCB chairman in Australi...
COLIN GIBSON

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
WILLIAM GIBSON

Parliament must act swiftly against all those Members of Parliament found to be in breach of the Par...
DOUGLAS GIBSON

I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the plat...
LAURIEANN GIBSON

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
WILLIAM GIBSON

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...
WILLIAM GIBSON

His outrage at that stage was quite palpable to anybody who had been following the case.
DAVID GIBSON

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

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