Arthur Ashe Quotes

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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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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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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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 guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number One.

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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

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I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how well things are going. This is a dream come true.

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What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

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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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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

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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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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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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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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

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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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