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

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

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