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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

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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.
Thought
Something
Guess
Early
Fun
Started
Sports

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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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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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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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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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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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If I don't ask Why me? after my victories, I cannot ask Why me? after my setbacks and disasters.
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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 have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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