I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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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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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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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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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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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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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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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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