The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
ARTHUR ASHEWith what we give, we make a life.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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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 may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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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 spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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 become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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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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I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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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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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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 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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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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