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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.

Arthur Ashe

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Deep Education Mindset Pay Price Sports Young
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
In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
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Care Competition Fashion Success Waste Yourself
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Decision Person Slow Wisdom
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Equality Learning Life Sports Yourself
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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Athlete Body Couple Fight Myself Perfection Sick Visual
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Best Inspirational Race Yourself
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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Battle Important Motivational Myself Responsibility Self Love Sports True
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 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
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
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Athlete Attitude Ideal Lose Mental Sports
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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Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
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
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
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

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