Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
ARTHUR ASHESuccess is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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 always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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