I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.