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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
ARTHUR ASHE

Achievement Sacrifice Sports Success Time True Worth Yourself
Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Game Life Service Win Yourself
With what we give, we make a life.
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Generosity Life One Liner
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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Learning Men Moments Myself Need Strength Weakness
It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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Hard Work Play Success Talent Try Win
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
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
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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Care Competition Fashion Success Waste Yourself
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
With what we give, we make a life.
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Generosity Life One Liner
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Control Defeat Failure Lose
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
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Competition Play Rival Yourself
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Generosity Inspirational Kindness Life Teaching
There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Funny Sick Sports
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

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