I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
“I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.”
“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.”