Arthur Ashe Quotes
"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Equality, History, Life)
"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Happiness)
"When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: America, College)
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Friendship, Dignity, Enemy)
"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
(Related: Love, Men, Power, Women, Education, Laws, Old, Respect)
"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Life, Winning, Losing)
"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Wind)
"A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Decisions)
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Appearance, Clothes, Man, Manners)
"Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone."
- Arthur Ashe
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Life, Living)
"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
(Related: Love, People, Want)
"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
(Related: Care, Deep)
"I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Accomplishments, Tennis, Want)
"I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Thought, Fun)
"I have always drawn strength from being close to home."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Home, Strength, Being)
"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
(Related: Heroism)
"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
(Related: Hope)
"Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Time, Trust)
"I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: May, Now, Walking)
"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
(Related: Life)
"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
(Related: Life, Court)
"Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Work, Being, Tennis)
"Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Democrats, Play, Republicans)
"My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Identity, Potential, Race)
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Success, Key, Preparation, Self)
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Success, Journey)
"There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis.""
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Sports)