I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
ARTHUR ASHEIf one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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 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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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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