The Power of Emotional Freedom

As a tennis player, Arthur Ashe was a beautiful contradiction. All the energy and emotion that he had to suppress was channelled into a bold and graceful playing form. His style is best described in the epigram he created for himself: physically loose and mentally tight. Other players never seemed to be able to handle the pressure of high stakes matches the way Ashe could. They often mistook Ashe as inhuman, as bottled up. Adversity can harden you, or make you better if you let it.