One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
ARTHUR ASHEThere is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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I 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.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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