You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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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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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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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