I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial. '
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.
You only stop learning when you quit.
If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.
Every week you have to play well to be the champion.
I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.