I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Oh my love, pure and divine love, I want to drown in youand then get lost, to find myself again and again, as a symbol and source of love, pure, blissful and divine.

Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God.

Consider, O Lover, my throatwhite as cigarette paper.The crushed lavender of my knuckles. My heart, a dulled needle threaded throughtoo many patterns.

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.

It is time to show the whole world that America is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before!

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

We are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends.