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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Arthur Ashe

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
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Confidence Important Inspirational Motivational Oneself Preparation Success
It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Appearance Gold Myself One Liner
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Best Inspirational Race Yourself
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
I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Myself Remember Reward
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Competition Play Rival Yourself
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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Black Education Library Myself Play Time
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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Brave Generosity Kindness Price Service True
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
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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Dignity Enemy Friendship Hands Ourselves
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Earn Relationship Time Trust
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Early Fun Myself Start
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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Family Father Goodness Myself Yourself
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Athlete Attitude Ideal Lose Mental Sports
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Home Myself Sports Strength

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