“Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.” WayWellsSportsBalancedPolite Author:Steve Yzerman
“I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.” ThinkingWellsHateHavensChangedTablesPoliteI Haven't Changed Author:Joan Juliet Buck
“There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.” WellsLooksLittlesBlackPowerfulBoysCourtPhotographCalmTennisMost PowerfulCowardMentorStaffDrsPoliteSkinnyJohnsonVirginiaDetachedMeannessFrailCocoonsPrincipledBlack Boy Author:Arthur Ashe