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.

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

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

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 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.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.