"If you're paid before you walk on..." - Quote by Arthur Ashe
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
More by Arthur Ashe
“I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.”
“There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.”
“...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.”
More on Motivation
“Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.”
“‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weakAnd when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give upBut you gotta search within youAnd gotta find that inner strengthAnd just pull that shit out of youAnd get that motivation to not give upAnd not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse.”
“Never flinch, never weary, never despair.”
More on Purpose
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”
“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.”
“The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.”