Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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