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.

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.

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

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

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

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