I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
ARTHUR ASHEHaving grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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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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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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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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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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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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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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 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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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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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