When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
ARTHUR ASHEMartina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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