Yannick Noah Quotes

France, Tennis Player
May 18, 1960

Yannick Noah (born 18 May 1960) is a former professional tennis player from France. He won the French Open in 1983, and is currently the captain of both France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup team. During his career, which spanned almost two decades, Noah captured a total of 23 singles titles and 16 doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 (in July 1986) and attaining the World No. 1 doubles ranking the following month. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder, with his mother, of a charity organization for underprivileged children. Noah is also the father of Joakim Noah of the NBA New York Knicks.

Also known as Tennis Coach

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

Yannick Noah
- Short
- Warrior
- Pacifist
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

Yannick Noah
- Waiting
- Playing
- Nervous

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

Yannick Noah
- Part
- Taxes
- Payment
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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- Day
- Problems
- Inspire
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Yannick Noah
- Good
- Believe
- Positive
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Yannick Noah
- People
- Time
- America
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

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- Tell
- Still
- Villages

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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- Friends
- Best
- Player
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

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- Black
- Right
- Africa
We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

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- Dog
- Cat
- Saying
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

Yannick Noah
- People
- Time
- Music
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

Yannick Noah
- Career
- Past
- Beginning
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

Yannick Noah
- Environment
- Calm
- Village

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

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- Important
- Together
- Want
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

Yannick Noah
- Years
- Old
- Lived
People judged my work without to have listened to it.

Yannick Noah
- People
- Work
- Without
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Yannick Noah
- Time
- Black
- Play
Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Yannick Noah
- Happy
- Want
- Child
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
- Important
- Eyes
- Hand

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
- Courage
- Tennis