In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

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.

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

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

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