Arthur Ashe Quotes

Lord,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, perhaps quoting someone, “make us not great but busy.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you’re behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

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

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

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

"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."

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

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

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now. Don’t be angry with me if I am not there in person, alive and well, when you need me. I would like nothing more than to be with you always. Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone. When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. Camera, 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 you on.

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

Believe me, most people resist change, even when it promises to be for the better. But change will come, and if you acknowledge this simple but indisputable fact of life, and understand that you must adjust to all change, then you will have a head start.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Chapter Ten The Threads in
My Hands THE YEAR 1993 did not start well. In fact, New Year’s Day found me ill at ease, hurting, coughing, and feverish, on an airplane bringing my family back a day early from Miami.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.