I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
ARTHUR ASHERegardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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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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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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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 become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in 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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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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