I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Start where you are, use what you have.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.