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

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.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

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 really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.