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If I didn't play tennis I prob...

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

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In America you're conditioned ...

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

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You come to realize that life ...

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.

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This is my career highlight. G...

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

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Having grown up in a segregate...

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

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Racism is not an excuse to not...

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

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We blacks look for leadership ...

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

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We must believe in the power o...

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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Drummed into me, above all, by...

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

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The best way to judge a life i...

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, 'Did I make the best use of the time I had?

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Start where you are, use what ...

Start where you are, use what you have.

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If I don't ask 'Why me?' aft...

If I don't ask 'Why me?' after my victories, I cannot ask 'Why me?' after my setbacks and disasters.

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Regardless of how you feel ins...

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

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Wherever I am when you feel si...

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don't know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.

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The world over - 50 million ch...

The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

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With what we give, we make a l...

With what we give, we make a life.

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Life is like a tennis game. Yo...

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

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...I spent many, many hours in...

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

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Sometimes, a defeat can be mor...

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

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I take the good with the bad, ...

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....