If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
ARTHUR ASHEWe 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.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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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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.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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’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.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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With what we give, we make 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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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