“This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.”

I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.

With what we give, we make a life.

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

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Start where you are, use what you have.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport… It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.