Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Arthur Ashe
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Success
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Success
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.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
Wisdom
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Success
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.
Wisdom
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Life
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Wisdom
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Education
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
Wisdom
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Wisdom
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Friendship
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Life
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.
Love
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
Wisdom
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Wisdom
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Happiness
Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
Wisdom
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Wisdom
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
Success
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