You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
ARTHUR ASHEI 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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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