It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
ARTHUR ASHEWherever 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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