Arthur Ashe Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Attitude, Athlete

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Education, College

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

• 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.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Sports, Failure

• 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.

  Arthur Ashe

  Motivational, Sports, Responsibility

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

• I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Hypnosis, Lasting Love

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Analysis, Syndromes

• Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Tennis, Be Good

• You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Learning, Equality

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Race, Diversity

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Trust, Sports, Reality

• I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Accomplishment, Tennis

• 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.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, People, Tennis

• 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.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Time, Children

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Fun

• I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, May, Way

  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.

• When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Together, I Loved You

  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.

• I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, People, Loner

• I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Home

• If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Sports, Court

• Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Fun, Sacrifice

• You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Sacrifice, Want

• 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.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Believe, Men

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

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