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.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

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

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.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.