Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.was an American World No. 1 professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth10 July 1943
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
library lasts hours
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
beautiful games victory
Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
children giving humanity
My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
selfish accomplishment tennis
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
helping-others joy forgiving
I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
sports sacrifice want
You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
giving
With what we give, we make a life.
education sports college
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
motivational responsibility battle
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
life sports failure
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.
trust sports reality
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
sports children believe
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
sports tennis be-good
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
sports accomplishment tennis
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.