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I spent many, many hours in ... libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don't know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless ... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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.
Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me
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.
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.
Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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.
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.