#imp

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#champion #considered #defended #fluke #once

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#continues #i #impact #learned #life

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ↗

— William Gibson

#any #bits #fragments #impossible #information

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made. ↗

— David Gill

#felt #ferdinand #genuinely #had #hadn

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society. ↗

— George Gilder

#differences #fact #human #human society #important

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#certainly #did #far #french #go

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? ↗

— Placido Domingo

#astonishing #career #i #i am #improving

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#i #important #laughter #more #really

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#children #improve #nice #nice things #others

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#appreciate #come #first #first impressions #fragility