It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
ARTHUR ASHEHaving 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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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 bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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