You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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