"In America you're conditioned to regard everything as……" — Arthur Ashe
"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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64 Quotes by Arthur Ashe
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving…
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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