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Charity
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe
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Competition
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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
-Arthur Ashe
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Confidence
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
-Arthur Ashe
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Fear
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
-Arthur Ashe
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Grace
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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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Heroes/Heroism
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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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Role models
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We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models.
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Sports
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.
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Winning, Winners
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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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Books by and about Arthur Ashe