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?
ARTHUR ASHE
Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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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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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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