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

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

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

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

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.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.