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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.

Arthur Ashe

There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Funny Sick Sports
Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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Beautiful Defeat Game Lost Play Satisfaction Victory 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
I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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Myself Sports Walk Yourself
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Best Judgement Life Myself Time
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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Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Earn Relationship Time Trust
With what we give, we make a life.
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Generosity Life One Liner
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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Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Appearance Gold Myself One Liner
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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Family Father Goodness Myself 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 didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Mental Myself Play See Sports
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
Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Death Feeling Myself Sorry
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

Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.

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