Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
ARTHUR ASHESomeone 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.”
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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