Arthur Ashe on appearance
Arthur Ashe134 quotes“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.”
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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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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 AsheArthur Ashe Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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 AsheArthur Ashe You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Unless you’re willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.
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