The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
ARTHUR ASHESometimes, 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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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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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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’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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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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 potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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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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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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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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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