Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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