I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
ARTHUR ASHEIf 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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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 have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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