Arthur Ashe Quotes

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

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

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  Winning, Games, Tennis

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

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  Softball, Confidence, Winning

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

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  Sports, Thinking, Play

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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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• 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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• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

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  Powerful, Boys, Virginia

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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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  Sports, Believe, Men

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad (p. 186), May 1, 1994.

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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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• My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

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  Sports, Race, Diversity

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

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  Brother, Names, Black

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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 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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  Motivational, Sports, Responsibility

  Arthur Ashe, Neil Amdur (1981). “Off the court”, Dutton Adult

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

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  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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