I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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 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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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 don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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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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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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