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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

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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Ethnic
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Diversity
Potential
Identity
Sports
Race

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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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 keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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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 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 syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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