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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.

Arthur Ashe

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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Believe Education Equality Justice Law Love Man Old Ourselves Power Respect Woman Young Youth
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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Myself Sports Walk 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
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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Expectation Feeling Life Sorry Strong Yourself
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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Black Education Library Myself Play Time
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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Believe Black Children Glory Myself Ourselves Professional Sports Strong Time
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Early Fun Myself Start
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
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Destination Important Inspirational Journey Motivational Success
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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God Goodness Himself Myself Play See
With what we give, we make a life.
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Generosity Life One Liner
You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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Achievement Sacrifice Sports Success Time True Worth Yourself
There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Funny Sick Sports
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
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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Education Library Myself Study Time
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Decision Person Slow Wisdom

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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