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 ASHEI spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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I 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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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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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.
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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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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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Throughout 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.
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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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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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