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.
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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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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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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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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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If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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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.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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