Arthur Ashe Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Sports, Fun, Sacrifice

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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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• There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

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  Stage

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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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  Wall, School, Library

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

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  Sports, Tennis, Be Good

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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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  Sports, Learning, Equality

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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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  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.

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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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  Sports, People, Tennis

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

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  Failure, Inward, Losing

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

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  Men, Weakness, Needs

  Arthur Ashe, Clifford George Gewecke (1967). “Advantage Ashe”

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• 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.

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  Sports, People, Loner

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• In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

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  Winning, Nuts, America

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

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  Sports, Accomplishment, Tennis

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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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  Art, Moving, Yards

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

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• 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.

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  Years, Careers, Firsts

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• If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

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  Play, Tennis, Psychiatrist

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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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  Athlete, Community, Black

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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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  Justice, Diversity, Floating

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• Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

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  Sorry, Gone, Feels

  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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• A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.

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  Couple, Athlete, Fighting

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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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  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.

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

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  Life, Sports, Court

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• Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

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  Tennis, Green, Packers

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

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  Sports, Fun

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