You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
ARTHUR ASHEThis is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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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 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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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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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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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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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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