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.
ARTHUR ASHESeven 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I 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.
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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