My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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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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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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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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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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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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 tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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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 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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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