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.
ARTHUR ASHEIf I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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 have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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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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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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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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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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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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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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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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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