Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
ARTHUR ASHELife is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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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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You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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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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