Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

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

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

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

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.