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

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

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

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

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.