A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
ARTHUR ASHE
If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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With what we give, we make a 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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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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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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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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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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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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 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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