I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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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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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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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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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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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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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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