You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
ARTHUR ASHEI may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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