The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
ARTHUR ASHELife is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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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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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 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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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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.”
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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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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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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