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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."

"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."

"Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments."

"The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled."

"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."

"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."

"I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments."
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"In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are."

"Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops."

"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina."

"In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best."

"I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so."

"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."
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