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