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 that the
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 basketb
Rest of my life. i ll always do that. he won t be able to play tennis the rest of his life. at the age of 35, i know what my strengths are fairly much. and i know what my weaknesses are. but i think more than anything else, which i couldn t do ten years ago, is admit that there s some things i can t do. whereas when i was 24, 25, there was nothing i didn t think i could do. he fought back and continues to fight. putting himself through agonies in order to not be overcome by younger, stronger, hungrier men. it is like some eastern ritual, but it works. a year ago, he had fallen from the top ten to a ranking of 257th in the world. today, he s back to number eight. arthur ashe wasn t supposed to have a chance in the finals of the grand prix masters tournament, not against the teenage star john mcenroe. but serving at triple set
Are. but i think more than anything else, which i couldn t do ten years ago, is admit that there s some things i can t do. whereas when i was 24, 25, there was nothing i didn t think i could do. he fought back and continues to fight. putting himself through agonies in order to not be overcome by younger, stronger, hungrier men. it is like some eastern ritual, but it works. a year ago, he had fallen from the top ten to a ranking of 257th in the world. today, he s back to number eight. arthur ashe wasn t supposed to have a chance in the finals of the grand prix masters tournament, not against the teenage star john mcenroe. but serving at triple set point in the first celt, the 19-year-old mcenroe double