It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

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

With what we give, we make a life.

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

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