"A couple of times a day I..." - Quote by Arthur Ashe
A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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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?”
“When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.”
“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 you on.”
More on Visualization
“If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”
“True change takes place in the imagination.”
“Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.”
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“What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.”
“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
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