I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
ARTHUR ASHEI have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
ARTHUR ASHEHaving 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.
ARTHUR ASHEI don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
ARTHUR ASHEI take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
ARTHUR ASHEWhen we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
ARTHUR ASHEYou learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
ARTHUR ASHEFrom what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
ARTHUR ASHESometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
ARTHUR ASHEFrom what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
ARTHUR ASHEI accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
ARTHUR ASHEI spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
ARTHUR ASHESometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
ARTHUR ASHETrust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
ARTHUR ASHEI keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
ARTHUR ASHEIt’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.
ARTHUR ASHE