Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
ARTHUR ASHEThis is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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