Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
ARTHUR ASHE
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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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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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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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