When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
ARTHUR ASHEWhen we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
ARTHUR ASHEDo not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
ARTHUR ASHEThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
ARTHUR ASHEI 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.
ARTHUR ASHEEvery time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
ARTHUR ASHEIt’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 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.
ARTHUR ASHETrust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
ARTHUR ASHEThe best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
ARTHUR ASHEWherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
ARTHUR ASHEA couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It’s the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
ARTHUR ASHEI have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
ARTHUR ASHESuccess is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
ARTHUR ASHEIt is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
ARTHUR ASHEIf 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.
ARTHUR ASHETrue 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.
ARTHUR ASHE