When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
ARTHUR ASHEWith what we give, we make a life.
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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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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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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