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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.

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.
Young
Women
Wells
Laws
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Respect
Must
Sports
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Education
Men
Law
Love
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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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 have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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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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If I don't ask Why me? after my victories, I cannot ask Why me? after my setbacks and disasters.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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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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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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