Arthur Ashe Quotes
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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.