Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHELater, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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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 strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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You’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.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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 spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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