Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease?"
To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learn to play tennis, 5 lakh learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the lawns, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon and 2 to the finals. So when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD "Why me?" and today in pain I should not be asking GOD "Why me?"
- from collection of Hardik... (courtesy a message from Pratik Bhansali)
