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 ASHERegardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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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.”
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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