Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHEWe must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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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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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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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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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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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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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I 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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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 may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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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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