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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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"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
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"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
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"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."
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"Don't give up searching."
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"Persistence is the source of great strength."
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"A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond."
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
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"To pray is to make petition."
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"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."
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"Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!"
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"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."
Attitude
"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."
Persistence
"Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis."
Work
"I have always drawn strength from being close to home."
Home
"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."
Life
"I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now."
Support
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."
Friendship
"My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity."
Identity
"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
"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."
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