If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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