If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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 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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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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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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 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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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