I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
ARTHUR ASHEI don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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 have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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