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"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."
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"Before giving up, try hard."
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"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."
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"All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking."
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"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"
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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
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"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."
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"Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!"
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"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
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"With patience, you will finish the race set before you."
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"For some, putting in the time or work to be prepared and live deliberately is natural. For others? It's work. However, as in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
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"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."
Equality
"There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis.""
Sports
"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."
Love
"If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?"
Life
"My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity."
Identity
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Life
"I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches."
Care
"I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments."
Accomplishment
"Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke."
Democracy
"I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do."
Thought
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