Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.