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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

Arthur Ashe

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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Care Competition Fashion Success Waste Yourself
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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Attitude Bad Dignity Face Goodness Myself Try
There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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Black Creation Different People Problem Sports
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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Challenge Fear Lose Time Win Yourself
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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Believe Black Children Glory Myself Ourselves Professional Sports Strong Time
Start where you are, use what you have.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive Satisfaction Yourself
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Diversity Identity Myself Potential Race Sports
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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Darkness Funny Inspirational Myself Wind
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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Election Forgiveness Generosity Help Human Joy Live Myself Poor Purpose Recognition Try Unfortunate
I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Last Library Myself Time
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Earn Relationship Time Trust
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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Battle Important Motivational Myself Responsibility Self Love Sports True
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Confidence Important Inspirational Motivational Oneself Preparation Success
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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Myself Sports Walk Yourself
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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Accomplishment Myself Remember Selfish Sports
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Best Inspirational Race Yourself

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

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