But the tennis association wouldn't -- and didn't -- do it that way. We decided both quarterfinals should be in Ashe, as we have before, ... Both delivered on drama. They're top names and both matches were epics.
Quotes about ashe (12 Quotes)
Besides us, I'd say Starmount has to be up front because of its tradition. They were young last year, and they should be good this year. They got some good skill players up from JV. North Surry and Ashe County also should be in the top half of the conference.
I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures all over the newsgroup. I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni. Where'd you get that picture'
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!
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
That says a lot. They could've chosen Arthur Ashe or a lot of other people. But they chose her. And that's not a sports magazine.
I'm definitely flattered and humbled any time I can put my name in the same sentence with Arthur Ashe. That's something that is always an accomplishment to me. He's a role model for more than just tennis players, I think.
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ('playing out of ones mind,' or 'over ones head') to describe their performances while winning the finals at Wimbledon in 1975. ... The player loses himself in the action, continually breaking the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are completely forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak pure and unspoiled.
Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,
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.
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.
When the Williams sisters came into tennis, there was so much rampant racism that it was unbelievable. When Arthur Ashe was playing the good game of tennis, he had to contend with nonsense. When Tiger Woods hit the professional golf ranks, he had dumb people talking about fried-chicken dinners and sitting watermelons out on the golf course.