If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
ARTHUR ASHEWhen we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
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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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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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 don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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