I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
ARTHUR ASHEEvery time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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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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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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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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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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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Seven 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.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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