A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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.
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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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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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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.
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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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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