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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.

Arthur Ashe

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.
ARTHUR ASHE

Black Face Growth Hard Time Myself
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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Athlete Black Carry Community Face Himself See Sports Yourself
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Appearance Confidence Feeling 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
I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Last Library Myself Time
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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Darkness Funny Inspirational Myself Wind
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Home Myself Sports Strength
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Diversity Identity Myself Potential Race Sports
If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Mental Myself Play See Sports
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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Achievement Hope Myself Sports Try Worth
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
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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Dignity Enemy Friendship Hands Ourselves
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Best Inspirational Race Yourself
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
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Discover Goodness Myself Sports
With what we give, we make a life.
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Generosity Life One Liner

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