If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
ARTHUR ASHEIf one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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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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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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