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?
ARTHUR ASHEThis is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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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 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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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 don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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