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.
ARTHUR ASHEIf you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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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 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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If I didn’t play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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