Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
ARTHUR ASHEA wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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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 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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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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 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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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