Ashe Quotes

#1. Right away, I invited on guests like Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and even porn star Danni Ashe, who took her top off in the studio to show us all how hot she was. (Listen up, Howard Stern, I'm following in your footsteps!)

Kevin D. Mitnick

#2. Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation.
Ashe to ashes.
It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.

Robert Dunbar

#3. Tell me," said Ashe gratefully, leaning forward in an attitude of attention, "all about the lining of your stomach.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

Mike Tyson

#5. I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it ... ashe.

Babatunde Olatunji

#6. I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

Jim Valvano

#7. Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles.

"I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth.

John Blaine

#8. And I'm going to work as hard as I can ... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

Jim Valvano

#9. Ashe was typical of that stratum of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat.

John Le Carre

#10. I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

Caitlyn Jenner

#11. Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Yannick Noah

#12. The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

Sakyong Mipham

#13. It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another
week!"
"Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Oh, blessed Domi!" the Aon exclaimed, approaching quickly.
"Ashe!" she said, wiping her eyes with a quivering hand, numbed by shock.
"You never use the Lord's name!"
"If He has brought me to you, then He has His first Seon convert," Ashe said,
pulsing excitedly.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Some people come into your life, not to stay, but to bring you to the path you were meant to be on. Ashe

Serena Pettus

#16. There's just nothing like playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's truly amazing.

Caroline Wozniacki

#17. If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof.

David Wong

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

Arthur Ashe

#19. I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Arthur Ashe

#20. 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.

Arthur Ashe

#21. I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Arthur Ashe

#22. Sex is still on the table. We just keep the yucky love stuff out of it."
...
"Now where is this table you speak of to have sex on? You should take me there. Now.

Eden Ashe

#23. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

Arthur Ashe

#24. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Arthur Ashe

#25. 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.

Arthur Ashe

#26. This is the story of how I never stopped running. This is the story of how,
when the wolves knocked, I met them at the door and I became the beast, instead.

Ashe Vernon

#27. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Arthur Ashe

#28. And said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me ... I never got it.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace

Rebecca Ashe

#29. I was a wolf, and they dressed me
in sheepskin

Ashe Vernon

#30. Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Arthur Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

#32. Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Arthur Ashe

#33. There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

Arthur Ashe

#34. A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe

#35. I am not in the habit of deflowering governesses." "I am not in the habit of being deflowered by pirates. Shall we consider it a draw?"

-Luc & Arabella

Katharine Ashe

#36. A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.

Arthur Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

#39. My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Arthur Ashe

#40. I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Arthur Ashe

#41. Pushing off the two men, he fought to get to his feet, and then staggered across the room until he was touching the glass to a cryogenic pod that was a mirror to his own. "Kat," he whispered, knowing she would never hear him.

Jillian Ashe

#42. A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.

Katharine Ashe

#43. If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

Arthur Ashe

#44. Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

Arthur Ashe

#45. My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within this iron cage for a reason. Breathe on it wrong and I will die ... Just go now. I would rather let you see my face, than my heart.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace

Rebecca Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

#47. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

Arthur Ashe

#48. There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

#49. I cared for you when I believed you dead." Her voice quivered. "You were more interesting then.

Katharine Ashe

#50. Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

Arthur Ashe

#51. You are a language I am no longer fluent in
but still remember how to read.

Ashe Vernon

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

Arthur Ashe

#53. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Arthur Ashe

#54. Abby had never met a sweet she didn't like: cookies, pie, chocolates, donuts, and yes, cupcakes.

Harper Ashe

#55. But who buries the hatchet
and who buries the bodies?
And who says they're not
the same thing these days?

Ashe Vernon

#56. I am carving myself into a shape
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster.

Ashe Vernon

#57. A whole castle full of damsels intent upon securing a husband?" Wesley mimicked in surprise. "Why, of course. What reasonable man would not be thrilled with such a prospect?"

-Wesley

Katharine Ashe

#58. Katenia, are you drunk?"

"No, it's my breasts. I've yet to adjust to my new size.

Eden Ashe

#59. I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Arthur Ashe

#60. A low, purring rumble reverberated in his chest, his voice tight when he spoke. "Ah, hell, You're naked.

Eden Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

#62. People who want to be loved", I say, "always do the most idiotic things ...

Rosamund Hodge

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

Arthur Ashe

#64. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

#65. Her lungs stung. "I came here to marry a prince," she said nonsensically.

"My dear, in all things but title you already have.

Katharine Ashe

#66. Clothes and manners do not make the ...

Arthur Ashe

#67. The animal inside him could wear a diadem and ermine and he would still be nothing more than an animal.

Katharine Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

#69. Henry rattled on, "We're going to march against

Katherine Ashe

#70. What they don't tell you
about standing up for what you believe in
is that your feet will bruise
and your legs will ache.

Ashe Vernon

#71. It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

Arthur Ashe

#72. She reached down and picked up one of the stakes she'd dropped, running the tip along her thigh as she straightened. "Want to play hunter and vampire?"
Reynard quirked his eyebrow. "Madam, I came equipped with my own stake."
"Whoa! Points to the old guy.

Sharon Ashwood

#73. There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be both.

Ashe Vernon

#74. It was time to confront the old bat with the damage she'd caused this time. Then, he promised himself, he'd strangle her for meddling in affairs that were none of her business, and kidnapping a goddamn innocent fairy.

Eden Ashe

#75. I am lost without you, duchess." "Then you are found. Because you will not be without me ever again." She dipped her brow to his chest. "I will never leave you."

-Luc & Arabella

Katharine Ashe

#76. Are you drunk?" she whispered. "Only on you, duchess. Only ever on you."

-Arabella & Luc

Katharine Ashe

#77. Most sailors weren't observant in that fashion. Pity she wasn't most sailors. Jinan Seton was a fine specimen of masculinity.

Katharine Ashe

#78. This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Arthur Ashe

#79. If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

Arthur Ashe

#80. The earl looked down at him. "Will he die, Gavin?" "You..." The barest whisper. "...wish."

-Cam & Luc

Katharine Ashe

#81. It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

Arthur Ashe

#82. If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Arthur Ashe

#83. You kissed me because you thought I was a servant, which is despicable."
"I kissed you because you were soft and shapely and at the time under me, which is in fact quite reasonable."

-Ravenna & Vitor

Katharine Ashe

#84. I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

Arthur Ashe

#85. You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

Arthur Ashe

#86. Are you happy?' he repeated quietly.
...
'Wouldn't you like to know?'
...
'Yes, or I would not ask. But apparently the child has returned and I shan't have my answer.' He moved away.
She wanted to shout that she was not a child but a woman, and the woman hurt.

Katharine Ashe

#87. In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

Arthur Ashe

#88. at the core of every individual lies a unit of 'experiencing' which underlies the inconsistencies of the human personality.

Steven Ashe

#89. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Arthur Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

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

Arthur Ashe

#92. He moved a half step closer. "What have ye got in that bonnie head o' yers, lass, that makes ye believe ye've got leave to make demands as ye do?"
Dreams. Hopes. The desperate wish for somebody to understand her.

Katharine Ashe

#93. 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."

Arthur Ashe

#94. 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

#95. I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

Arthur Ashe

#96. With what we give, we make a life.

Arthur Ashe

#97. Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Arthur Ashe

#98. I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Arthur Ashe

#99. I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

Arthur Ashe

#100. If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.

Penelope Ashe