“We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?”

It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home–perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty.

We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.

It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return?

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn’t think of it as being tough and things like that.

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.

The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

He wasn’t flashy and he wouldn’t score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest.