Arthur Ashe quotes

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

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- Arthur Ashe

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

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

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

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

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

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.
- Arthur Ashe

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

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

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.
- Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
- Arthur Ashe

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

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
- Arthur Ashe

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.
- 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

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

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.
- Arthur Ashe

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
- Arthur Ashe