I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
ARTHUR ASHEYou’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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 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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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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I 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.
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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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