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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Arthur Ashe

It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
ARTHUR ASHE

Live Myself Quite World
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
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
ARTHUR ASHE

Important Inspirational Life Lose Motivation Win Yourself
A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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Athlete Body Couple Fight Myself Perfection Sick Visual
Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Game Life Service Win Yourself
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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Black Face Growth Hard Time Myself
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Earn Relationship Time Trust
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Democracy Play Politics Sports Thinking
Start where you are, use what you have.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive Satisfaction Yourself
I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Myself Remember Reward
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
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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God Goodness Himself Myself Play See
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Control Defeat Failure Lose
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Decision Person Slow Wisdom
Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Death Feeling Myself Sorry
There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Funny Sick Sports

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