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.

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

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.

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

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