With what we give, we make a life.
ARTHUR 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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