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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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More quotes by Arthur Ashe
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.
Arthur Ashe
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
Arthur Ashe
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
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.
Arthur Ashe
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.
Arthur Ashe
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
Arthur Ashe
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.
Arthur Ashe
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
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
Arthur Ashe
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
Arthur Ashe
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur Ashe
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.
Arthur Ashe
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe
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.
Arthur Ashe
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
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
Arthur Ashe
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
Arthur Ashe
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
Arthur Ashe
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
Arthur Ashe
