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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.

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.
Contribution
Tennis
Remembered
Selfish
Society
Accomplishments
Purely
Accomplishment

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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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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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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 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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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 have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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