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.
ARTHUR ASHEI’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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 want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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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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