“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 have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.”

“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.”

“There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'”

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

“And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!”