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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe

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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.
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This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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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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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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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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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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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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If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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