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.”
ARTHUR ASHEDo not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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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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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 have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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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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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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