I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

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.

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.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.