If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
ARTHUR ASHEWith what we give, we make a life.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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In 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?
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