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?
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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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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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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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A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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 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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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