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?
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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 doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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 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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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 don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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