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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.

Arthur Ashe

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
ARTHUR ASHE

Achievement Hope Myself Sports Try Worth
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
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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Accomplishment Myself Remember Selfish Sports
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
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Happiness Love Myself Togetherness
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Equality Learning Life Sports Yourself
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Athlete Attitude Ideal Lose Mental Sports
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
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
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
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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Acceptance Alone Lonely Myself People Sports
I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Last Library Myself Time
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
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Earn Relationship Time Trust
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
It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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Live Myself Quite World

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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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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