I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.