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.
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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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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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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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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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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 I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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