Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.

I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.

A little prosperity and peace, or even a turn slightly for the better, can bring us feelings of self-sufficiency. We can feel quickly that we are in control of our lives, that the change for the better is our own doing, not that of a God who communicates to us through the still, small voice of the Spirit.