Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
ARTHUR ASHEA 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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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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.
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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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