Quotes from Arthur Ashe

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

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

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

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

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

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

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.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

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

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.

From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 on.

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

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.

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

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.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.