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.
ARTHUR ASHEI have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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 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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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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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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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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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