Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging 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 care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

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.

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