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.

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

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.

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

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.