If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

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

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

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?