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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.
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
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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 I don't ask Why me? after my victories, I cannot ask Why me? after my setbacks and disasters.
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The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'
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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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