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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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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
Greatest
Humanity
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Common
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Children
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Possibility
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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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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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 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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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