I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

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

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

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.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

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.