Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.
You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.
On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
Let the ruins come to life In the beauty of Your name Rising up from the ashes God forever You reign
