"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." ― Arthur Ashe Topic(s): Success More From Arthur Ashe "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." "The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight." "If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life." More In Success "Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier."― Bruce Springsteen "Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."― Anthony Trollope "Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."― Mark Strand