I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

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

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

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

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

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.

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.