Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
ARTHUR ASHEI 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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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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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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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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