Start where you are, use what you have.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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.
Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
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?'
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
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.
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?
Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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.
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.
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.
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