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
His mother. don t come up on the ball so much, honey. out more. jimmy connors is one of the great effort players who ever played tennis. however, he did some things that sort of made you scratch your head as particularly off the court, and that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. my disappointment early on was he wouldn t join our players union, the atp. he was dyed in the wool blue color of east st. louis. it made no sense to me that he wouldn t do that. jimmy was a contrarian. didn t join the atp. arthur is president of the at p. jimmy didn t want to be part of the u.s. team in davis cup. that didn t sit well with arthur either. there simply never had been an american player who so consistently refused to play davis cup. i couldn t understand how any american player would not do that.
Great effort players who ever played tennis. however, he did some things that sort of made you scratch your head as particularly off the court, and that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. my disappointment early on was he wouldn t join our players union, the atp. he was dyed in the wool blue color of east st. louis. it made no sense to me that he wouldn t do that. jimmy was a contrarian. didn t join the atp. arthur is president of the at pp. jimmy didn t want to be part of the u.s. team in davis cup. that didn t sit well with arthur either. there simply never had been an american player who so consistently refused to play davis cup. i couldn t understand how any american player would not do that. at the beginning of the 75 season, i thought look, i m going to be 32 years old. this will probably be my last