If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
ARTHUR ASHEIf one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
ARTHUR ASHEI don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
ARTHUR ASHEI take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
ARTHUR ASHEThis 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.
ARTHUR ASHEIn 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 ASHESuccess is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
ARTHUR ASHEI take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
ARTHUR ASHEI guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
ARTHUR ASHEMy humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
ARTHUR ASHERacism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHEIt is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
ARTHUR ASHEDrummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
ARTHUR ASHERacism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
ARTHUR ASHEThroughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
ARTHUR ASHEI accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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