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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.

Arthur Ashe

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Appearance Confidence Feeling Win Yourself
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Generosity Inspirational Kindness Life Teaching
Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Game Life Service Win Yourself
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
I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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Election Forgiveness Generosity Help Human Joy Live Myself Poor Purpose Recognition Try Unfortunate
I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Myself Remember Reward
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Happiness Love Myself Togetherness
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Discover Goodness Myself Sports
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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Accomplishment Myself Remember Selfish Sports
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
If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Appearance Mean Myself Oneself Reputation Respect
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.
ARTHUR ASHE

Believe Education Equality Justice Law Love Man Old Ourselves Power Respect Woman Young Youth
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’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
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
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Democracy Play Politics Sports Thinking
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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Brave Generosity Kindness Price Service True
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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Family Father Goodness Myself Yourself
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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Fall Feeling Friendship Life Myself Praise Sick Smile Yourself
Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Action Fear Inspirational Motivational
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
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
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Competition Play Rival Yourself
My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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Children Generosity God Greatness Humanity Possible
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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Breathe Care Myself Start Weakness Yourself
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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Best Judgement Life Myself Time
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

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