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that s it. new ball. shots are 2-2. got by him. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially an african american context. does still persist in the world about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletes. i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketballs. and the challenge now is to convince young black athletes th ....
that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs. but a new young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced, and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk b ....
If a match was supposed to start at 1:00, john would always wait until three minutes past 1:00, always. things like that. i remember a match where arthur didn t say a word to me at all. he s looking at these stats, and i m like, this is a bunch of baloney. but i would say the only time there was real friction, i believe it was the final match against argentina. basically, i guess that had been building up a little bit. john mcenroe, besides playing his usual brilliant tennis, got into his usual antics on the court. you shouldn t be in the chair, all right. you re junk. you were very strong in your point that the u.s. had never defaulted a match. you were not about to let john mcenroe do the same because of his behavior. how do you prevent this, arthur, and what do you tell a mcenroe? john had behaved so poorly, i called our davis cup committee ....
Things like that. i remember a match where arthur didn t say a word to me at all. he s looking at these stats, and i m like, this is a bunch of baloney. but i would say the only time there was real friction, i believe it was the final match against argentina. basically, i guess that had been building up a little bit. john mcenroe, besides playing his usual brilliant tennis, got into his usual antics on the court. you shouldn t be in the chair, all right. you re junk. you were very strong in your point that the u.s. had never defaulted a match. you were not about to let john mcenroe do the same because of his behavior. how do you prevent this, arthur, and what do you tell a mcenroe? john had behaved so poorly, i called our davis cup committee chair person and i said, look, i thought what john did yesterday was ridiculous. it makes us look bad. ....