I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
ARTHUR ASHEFear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Someone 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.”
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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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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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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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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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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