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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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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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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.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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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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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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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 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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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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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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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 come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
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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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