I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.
ARTHUR ASHEDrummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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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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 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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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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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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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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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’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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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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