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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

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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.
Better
Stage
Open

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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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 become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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