One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
ARTHUR ASHEI 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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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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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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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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