There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

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.

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.

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

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

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

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