Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
ARTHUR ASHELife is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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 don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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I 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.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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A 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.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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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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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Wherever 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.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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