This Is My Career Highlight. Getting To

Do Not Feel Sorry For Me If I Am Gone.

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.

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.

Racism Is Not An Excuse To Not Do The Best You Can.

The Ideal Attitude Is To Be Physically Loose And Mentally Tight.