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

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

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

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

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

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.

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