Arthur Ashe Quotes

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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• Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

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  Winning, Games, Tennis

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

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  Inspirational, Kindness, Teaching

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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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  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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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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  Life, Motivation, Winning

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

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  Softball, Confidence, Winning

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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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  Life, Sports, Failure

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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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  Judging, Use, Way

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• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

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  Children, Pain, Play

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

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  Playing Yourself, Opponents

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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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  Cheer, Fall, Heart

  Arthur Ashe's message to his daughter Camera, as quoted in Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad "Days of Grace: A Memoir" (p. 341), May 1, 1994.

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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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  Friendship, Hands, Enemy

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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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  Attitude, Trying, Faces

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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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  Helping Others, Joy, Forgiving

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

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  Sports, Education, College

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With what we give, we make a life.

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  Giving

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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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  Sports, Hypnosis, Lasting Love

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

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  Sports, Attitude, Athlete

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

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  Sports, Analysis, Syndromes

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• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

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  Spiritual, Commitment, Pride

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arnold Rampersad and Arthur Ashe, p. 186, 1993.

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

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  Trust, Sports, Reality

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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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  Library, Littles, Too Much

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