Althea Gibson

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

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.