Arthur Ashe

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?