Start where you are, use what you have.
ARTHUR ASHEIt is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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.
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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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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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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