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.
ARTHUR ASHELater, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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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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