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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.

Arthur Ashe

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
If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Mental Myself Play See Sports
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Destination Important Inspirational Journey Motivational Success
If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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Failure Inspirational Myself Personality Success Victory
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
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Best Judgement Life Myself Time
Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Game Life Service Win Yourself
I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Last Library Myself Time
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
When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Deep Education Mindset Pay Price Sports Young
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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Achievement Hope Myself Sports Try Worth
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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Independent Life Play Walk Yourself
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Early Fun Myself Start
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Athlete Attitude Ideal Lose Mental Sports
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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Brave Generosity Kindness Price Service True
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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Achievement Sacrifice Sports Success Time True Worth Yourself
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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Brave Generosity Kindness Price Service True
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Competition Play Rival Yourself
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Best Judgement Life Myself Time
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Athlete Attitude Ideal Lose Mental Sports
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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Dignity Enemy Friendship Hands Ourselves
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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Family Father Goodness Myself Yourself
There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Funny Sick Sports
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
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
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
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Appearance Confidence Feeling Win Yourself

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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