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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.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Diversity Identity Myself Potential Race Sports
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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Black Education Library Myself Play Time
Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Action Fear Inspirational Motivational
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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Believe Education Equality Justice Law Love Man Old Ourselves Power Respect Woman Young Youth
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Competition Play Rival Yourself
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Home Myself Sports Strength
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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Darkness Funny Inspirational Myself Wind
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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Believe Black Children Glory Myself Ourselves Professional Sports Strong Time
Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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Black Face Growth Hard Time Myself
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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Education Library Myself Study Time
It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Appearance Gold Myself One Liner
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Discover Goodness Myself Sports
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Dignity Enemy Friendship Hands Ourselves
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.
ARTHUR ASHE

Learning Men Moments Myself Need Strength Weakness
You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
ARTHUR ASHE

Expectation Feeling Life Sorry Strong Yourself
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
ARTHUR ASHE

Competition Play Rival Yourself

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