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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.

Arthur Ashe

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
ARTHUR ASHE

Competition Play Rival Yourself
I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
ARTHUR ASHE

Learning Men Moments Myself Need Strength Weakness
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.
ARTHUR ASHE

Athlete Black Carry Community Face Himself See Sports Yourself
Start where you are, use what you have.
ARTHUR ASHE

Inspirational Motivational Positive Satisfaction Yourself
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
ARTHUR ASHE

Family Father Goodness Myself Yourself
I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
ARTHUR ASHE

Last Library Myself Time
You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
ARTHUR ASHE

Achievement Sacrifice Sports Success Time True Worth Yourself
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
ARTHUR ASHE

Black Education Library Myself Play Time
If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
ARTHUR ASHE

Independent Life Play Walk Yourself
With what we give, we make a life.
ARTHUR ASHE

Generosity Life One Liner
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.
ARTHUR ASHE

Education Library Myself Study Time
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHE

Best Inspirational Race Yourself
If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
ARTHUR ASHE

Failure Inspirational Myself Personality Success Victory
With what we give, we make a life.
ARTHUR ASHE

Generosity Life One Liner
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.”
ARTHUR ASHE

God Goodness Himself Myself Play See
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
ARTHUR ASHE

Important Inspirational Life Lose Motivation Win Yourself

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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