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.
ARTHUR ASHEIn 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?
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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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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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Having 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.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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