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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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?
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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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 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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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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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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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 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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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