Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
ARTHUR ASHELife is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
ARTHUR ASHEI have always drawn strength from being close to home.
ARTHUR ASHEI take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
ARTHUR ASHEStart where you are, use what you have.
ARTHUR ASHEOne important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
ARTHUR ASHEEvery time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
ARTHUR ASHEMy potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
ARTHUR ASHEFrom what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
ARTHUR ASHEI know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
ARTHUR ASHEThe best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
ARTHUR ASHEI have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
ARTHUR ASHESeven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
ARTHUR ASHEYou learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
ARTHUR ASHEIn 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 ASHELife is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
ARTHUR ASHEMy potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
ARTHUR ASHE