If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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 have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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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 don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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 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.
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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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