Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
ARTHUR ASHE
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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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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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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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