Yannick Noah Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Yannick Noah

#2. At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. - Author: Yannick Noah

#3. 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. - Author: Yannick Noah

#4. You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. - Author: Yannick Noah

#5. I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. - Author: Yannick Noah

#6. I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland. - Author: Yannick Noah

#7. To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. - Author: Yannick Noah

#8. Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. - Author: Yannick Noah

#9. Your child is happy. What else could you want? - Author: Yannick Noah

#10. Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too. - Author: Yannick Noah

#11. 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. - Author: Yannick Noah

#12. I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer. - Author: Yannick Noah

#13. People judged my work without to have listened to it. - Author: Yannick Noah

#14. I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. - Author: Yannick Noah

#15. We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat. - Author: Yannick Noah

#16. In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right. - Author: Yannick Noah

#17. In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. - Author: Yannick Noah

#18. 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. - Author: Yannick Noah

#19. The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special. - Author: Yannick Noah

#20. Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting. - Author: Yannick Noah

#21. Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior. - Author: Yannick Noah