If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
ARTHUR ASHEI guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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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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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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 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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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