If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

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 may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.