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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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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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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 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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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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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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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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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