Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

I'm not begging to be remembered or whatever. I did my thing, and if you remember, that's even better. But if you don't, there's so many other things going on.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.