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 ASHEStart where you are, use what you have.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Seven 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.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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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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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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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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