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.
ARTHUR ASHEI 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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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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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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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