Start where you are, use what you have.
ARTHUR ASHEThe best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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 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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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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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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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