"I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country."

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Source : Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

Althea Gibson

#Country Quotes #Tennis Quotes #Credit Quotes

“I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.”
“Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.”
“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
“Well, things hold up even if they sound dated. It can be very difficult to listen to 80s pop songs with really, really gigantic smashed drum sounds. You just want to turn that gated reverb down on the snare. It sounds wrong now. It sounds amateurish. And ugly. But at the time it sounded state-of-the-art. So yeah, I think it's important not to sound state-of-the-art in a way that anybody else is going to sound. Or you'll quickly sound like yesterday's state-of-the-art.”
“I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.”
“Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.”
“My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'”

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