Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
ARTHUR ASHEEvery time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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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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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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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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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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