It Is Not Just The More Talented

Let Me Put It This Way: I Think Republicans Tend To Keep The Ball In Play, Democrats Go For Broke.

Later, I Discovered There Was A Lot Of Work To Being Good In Tennis.

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.

Trust Has To Be Earned, And Should Come Only After The Passage Of Time.

There Were Times When I Asked Myself Whether I Was Being Principled Or Simply A Coward.... I Was Wrapped In The Cocoon Of Tennis Early In Life, Mainly By Blacks Like My Most Powerful Mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson Of Lynchburg, Virginia. They Insisted That I Be Unfailingly Polite On The Court, Unfalteringly Calm And Detached, So That Whites Could Never Accuse Me Of Meanness. I Learned Well. I Look At Photographs Of The Skinny, Frail, Little Black Boy That I Was In The Early 1950s, And I See That I Was My Tennis Racquet And My Tennis Racquet Was Me. It Was My Rod And My Staff.