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.”
ARTHUR ASHESuccess is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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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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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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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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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’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.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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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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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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