Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

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.

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.

When you're hot, anything can happen.

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.

I was never part of the crowd.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.