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.
ARTHUR ASHELater, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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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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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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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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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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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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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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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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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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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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