Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHELater, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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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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I 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.
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This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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