Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
ARTHUR ASHEDo not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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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 keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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 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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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