Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
ARTHUR ASHEIf 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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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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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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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’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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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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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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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