I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
ARTHUR ASHELife is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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