It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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