Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
ARTHUR ASHEI don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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’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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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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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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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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