You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur AsheRead
It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
Interpretation
Winning is not solely based on talent; effort can make a critical difference.
Arthur Ashe highlights the idea that success in sports, and by extension in life, is not determined solely by innate talent. Instead, he emphasizes the importance of effort and hard work, suggesting that those who are willing to push themselves further can achieve greater success, even if they may not be the most naturally gifted individuals.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a sports gathering.
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That's it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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