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.
ARTHUR ASHEI 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.
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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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 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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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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