white folk in one of the first names that comes for me is jackie joyner- kersee. what is in the water? >> i will take the company. my mom, my dad, my grandparents came from east st. louis. wasringing with the way it in the 1940's and 1930's and 1950's, a key round in 1952. my grandfather was mayor of east st. louis and commissioner -- police commissioner. good riddance. i loved it. i knew there was a time when i wanted to go. my mom taught me tennis and gave me an opportunity to play. tennis was not the real thing. if you were not playing baseball or basketball or football, you were on the outside. when i was 16 and was ready to go. tavis: i am just revenue. i am from the with -- the midwest. how you madeabout the shift to california at 16 years of age. i want to go back to where you started. that is with your mom. and your grandmother. in part because i do not know of any other tennis great who was as influenced by his mother and by his grandmother as opposed andre under agassi -- agassi's dad laid it on him so heavy to play, he'll most hated tennis. this was you