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.
ARTHUR ASHELet me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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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 spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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.”
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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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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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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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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