Yannick Noah

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.