Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

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.

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.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

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.

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