I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
ARTHUR ASHEIf I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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 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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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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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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