One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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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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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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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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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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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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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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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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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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