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

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

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

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

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

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

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

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

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.