I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
ARTHUR ASHEWherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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