Yannick Noah Quotes

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

“Your child is happy. What else could you want?”

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

“People judged my work without to have listened to it.”

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

“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.”

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

“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.”

— Yannick Noah

“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.”

— Yannick Noah

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

— Yannick Noah

“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.”

— Yannick Noah