Yannick Noah Quotes

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

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  Positive, Karma, Believe

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

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  Two, Tennis, Arena

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

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  Sports, Dog, Cat

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• The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

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  Sports, Important, Together

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• 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.

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  Eye, Fighting, Hands

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• 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.

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  Sports, Moving, Inspire

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• People judged my work without to have listened to it.

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  Sports, People, Judged

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

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  Sports, Waiting, Nervous

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• 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.

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  Sports, New York, Media

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

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  Unbearable, Payment, Taxes

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

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  Sports, Europe, America

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

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  Sports, People, Want

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• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

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  Europe, Stories, Village

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

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  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

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  Past, Careers, Weight

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• I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

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  Years, Usa, America

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

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  Echoes, Village, Calm

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• It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

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  Sports, Teamwork, Player

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

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  Sports, Black, Doe

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