When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

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

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

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

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

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.