This 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.
ARTHUR ASHESometimes, 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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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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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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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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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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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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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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I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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.
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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Wherever 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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