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

Arthur Ashe

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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
Sports
Reality
Come
Time
Passage
Earned
Passages
Trust

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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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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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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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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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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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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish that was for me.
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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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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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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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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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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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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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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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If I don't ask Why me? after my victories, I cannot ask Why me? after my setbacks and disasters.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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