Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
ARTHUR ASHEMy potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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This 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.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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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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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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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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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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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 always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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