"Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful..." - Quote by Arthur Ashe

“My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.”

“It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.”

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

“I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.”

“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”

“You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.”

“It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”

“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”

“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”