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.
ARTHUR ASHEDrummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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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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In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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