After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

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

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

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

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

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