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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
Important
Going
Life
Tennis
Motivation
Losing
Stage
Winning

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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 one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
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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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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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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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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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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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