There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
ARTHUR ASHEI have always drawn strength from being close to home.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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?
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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