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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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.
Deeply
Gave
Loved
Sports
Happiness
Together
Much
Never
Repay
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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'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 one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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 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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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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 have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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 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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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 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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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