This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
ARTHUR ASHEAlways have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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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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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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