It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
ARTHUR ASHEThis 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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