You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
ARTHUR ASHEHaving 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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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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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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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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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