We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

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

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

Start where you are, use what you have.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'