I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
ARTHUR ASHEStart where you are, use what you have.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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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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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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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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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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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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