From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
ARTHUR ASHEOne important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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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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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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 become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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