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If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.