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 ASHEI have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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 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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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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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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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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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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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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