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"Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots."
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"My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball."
Driving
"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
Sports
"To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis."
Goal
"I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot."
Want
"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
Aspiration
"I started tennis around age 2."
Age
"Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury."
Sports
"Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind."
Change
"We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat."
Sports
"My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C."
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"One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, "Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this."
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"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."
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"Great losses are great lessons."
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"But Grover's voice was already growing fainter. 'Sweet dreams. Don't let me die!"
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"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."
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"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."
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"And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them."
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"She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together."
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"He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?"
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"Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."
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