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 ASHEI spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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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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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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.”
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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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