Arthur Ashe

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

— Arthur Ashe

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

— Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

— Arthur Ashe

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

— Arthur Ashe

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

— Arthur Ashe

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

— Arthur Ashe

With what we give, we make a life.

— Arthur Ashe

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

— Arthur Ashe

It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure…

— 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 have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

— Arthur Ashe

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

— Arthur Ashe

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

— Arthur Ashe

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be…

— Arthur Ashe

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

— Arthur Ashe

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

— Arthur Ashe

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to…

— Arthur Ashe

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know…

— Arthur Ashe

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young,…

— Arthur Ashe

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior,…

— Arthur Ashe

A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me…

— Arthur Ashe

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters…

— Arthur Ashe

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge…

— Arthur Ashe

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it…

— Arthur Ashe

The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come…

— Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation,…

— Arthur Ashe

Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just…

— Arthur Ashe

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If…

— Arthur Ashe

There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward… I was wrapped in the cocoon…

— Arthur Ashe

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

— Arthur Ashe

Start where you are, use what you have.

— Arthur Ashe

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

— Arthur Ashe

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

— Arthur Ashe

Clothes and manners do not make the...

— Arthur Ashe

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

— 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

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

— Arthur Ashe

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

— Arthur Ashe

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging…

— Arthur Ashe