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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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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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If I don't ask Why me? after my victories, I cannot ask Why me? after my setbacks and disasters.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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