You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
ARTHUR ASHEI guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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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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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.
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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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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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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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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