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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.
Well
Respect
Must
Sports
Believe
Education
Men
Law
Love
Power
Young
Women
Wells
Laws

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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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