Top 29 Yannick Noah Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I try to block it out. But no matter how many times I hear her raging at me, her words still pierce through. I curl into my corner, trying to get as far from her as I can. She'll twist anything I say to fit her crazy logic and then throw it back at me. I
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#3. At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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#4. 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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#5. You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
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#6. 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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#7. What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!
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#8. I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
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#9. To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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#10. Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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#11. Your child is happy. What else could you want?
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#12. Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. People judged my work without to have listened to it.
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#16. You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.
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#17. We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
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#18. All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.
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#19. In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
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#20. Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.
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#21. In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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#22. 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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#23. There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
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#24. The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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#25. Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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#27. Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.
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#28. I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
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#29. I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.
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