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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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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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Education
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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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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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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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 have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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 is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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