If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
ARTHUR ASHEStart where you are, use what you have.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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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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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.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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