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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.

Arthur Ashe

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
ARTHUR ASHE

Early Fun Myself Start
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.
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Black Face Growth Hard Time Myself
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Early Fun Myself Start
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Destination Important Inspirational Journey Motivational Success
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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Children Generosity God Greatness Humanity Possible
It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Appearance Gold Myself One Liner
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
If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Mental Myself Play See Sports
If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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Independent Life Play Walk Yourself
This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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Achievement Career Sports
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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Bad Failure Life Myself Sports
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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Fall Feeling Friendship Life Myself Praise Sick Smile Yourself
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
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
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

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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