If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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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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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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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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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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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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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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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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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