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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

Arthur Ashe

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
ARTHUR ASHE

Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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Athlete Body Couple Fight Myself Perfection Sick Visual
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
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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Important Inspirational Life Lose Motivation Win Yourself
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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Children Generosity God Greatness Humanity Possible
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.
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Achievement Career Sports
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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Breathe Care Myself Start Weakness Yourself
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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Herself Old Strong Yourself
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
If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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Failure Inspirational Myself Personality Success Victory
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Appearance Confidence Feeling Win Yourself
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
ARTHUR ASHE

Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
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
When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Deep Education Mindset Pay Price Sports Young
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Early Fun Myself Start
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Control Defeat Failure Lose

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

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