Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
ARTHUR ASHEI 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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 is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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