It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
ARTHUR ASHEWe 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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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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’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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