I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
ARTHUR ASHEDo not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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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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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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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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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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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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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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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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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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