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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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.Arthur Ashe
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing you keep challenging it.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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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