Arthur Ashe on learning
Arthur Ashe134 quotes“I’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.”
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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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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?
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe 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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