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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

Arthur Ashe

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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Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
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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Important Inspirational Life Lose Motivation Win Yourself
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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Challenge Fear Lose Time Win Yourself
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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Live Myself Quite World
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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Black Creation Different People Problem Sports
It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Appearance Gold Myself One Liner
Having 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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Black Face Growth Hard Time Myself
It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Appearance Gold Myself One Liner
It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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Hard Work Play Success Talent Try Win
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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Learning Men Moments Myself Need Strength Weakness
If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Mental Myself Play See Sports
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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Athlete Body Couple Fight Myself Perfection Sick Visual
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Earn Relationship Time Trust
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Home Myself Sports Strength
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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Bad Failure Life Myself Sports
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Equality Learning Life Sports Yourself

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

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