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 ASHESomeone 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.”
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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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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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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It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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