Carolina QuotesBeing the Queen of Tennis is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. Nor can you send the Internal Revenue Service a throne clipped to their tax forms...I reign over an empty bank account, and I'm not going to fill it by playing amateur tennis.
Althea Gibson Carolinian
Source
So Much to Live For, page 15, by Althea Gibson and Richard Curtis, Putnam (1968)
- year
- 1968
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