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
Act this way. you got the wrong person. 1965 arthur was in college. i got a letter from him telling me that he was in the rotc. that surprised me. i just never saw him going that way. arthur, did you ever contemplate avoid yans of military service because of the prejudice directed against your people in this country? no. because something is freedom to protect. i would rather be an american and slightly discriminated against than anything else. professional tennis didn t exist when i was at ucla so i had always planned to graduate, go into the army and then i was going to bum around the world as an amateur player and then go back to garagraduate school.