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.
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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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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 don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
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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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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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