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I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.
Stan Wawrinka
Top
Push
Limit
Always
Improve
Trying
Put the fight on the court, and you will have a chance to win.
Stan Wawrinka
You
Fight
Win
Will
Put
Court
Chance
The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.
Stan Wawrinka
Me
Too Much
First
Big
Difficult
Too
Everything
Bit
Favorite
Favorite Places
New
Became
Came
Years
York
New York
Places
Much
Here
There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.
Stan Wawrinka
You
Wake Up
Tough
Practice
Enjoy
Top
Way
One-Way
Only
Well
Because
Court
Practicing
Always
Go
Wake
Up
Then
Really
Hard
Suffer
Enjoying
You can always learn when you lose.
Stan Wawrinka
You
Lose
Learn
Always
You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.
Stan Wawrinka
Life
You
Try
Solutions
Find
Tennis
Always
Same
Hard
Need
All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.
Stan Wawrinka
You
Game
Trust
Wait
Give
Match
Opponent
Your
Playing a best of five-set match, you can always bounce back, even if you lose the first set.
Stan Wawrinka
Best
You
First
Lose
Back
Bounce
Match
Always
Even
Playing
Set
The ranking never lies.
Stan Wawrinka
Ranking
Lies
Never
The schedule is tough in tennis.
Stan Wawrinka
Tough
Schedule
Tennis
I think it is good to grow up on a farm, with nature, with animals and everything when you are young.
Stan Wawrinka
Good
Nature
You
Animals
Young
Farm
Think
Everything
Up
Grow
Grow Up
When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.
Stan Wawrinka
Practice
Young
Spend
Hours
Liked
Hours And Hours
Court
If you want to beat the No. 1 player in the world, you have to give everything.
Stan Wawrinka
You
World
Everything
Give
Beat
Want
Player
The only plan is trying to push myself the maximum to be the best player I can.
Stan Wawrinka
Best
Myself
Only
Push
Trying
Maximum
Plan
Player
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
Tariq Ramadan
History
Speak
South Africa
Visitor
Indifferent
Student
Never
Leaves
South
Cultures
Friend
Africa
Landscapes
Population
Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
Tariq Ramadan
Country
Believe
Seems
Ideas
Because
Conclusion
Inescapable
Am
Being
Organizations
Barred
Many
Actions
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan
Spiritual
Memory
Emotions
Intelligence
Collective
Constructs
Through
Take
Never
Merely
Intellectual
Cultures
Artistic
Form
Psychology
Commonly
Held
Communion
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
Tariq Ramadan
Daily
Commitment
Will
Citizen
Down
Every
Society
Pluralistic
Fail
Understand
Terror
Personal
Crash
Us
Requires
This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
Tariq Ramadan
Truth
You
Truth Is
Equality
World
Simple
Values
Diversity
Build
Society
Muslims
Citizens
Find
Simple Truth
Throughout
Know
Fellow
Message
Fellow Citizens
Talking
Essence
Common
Want
Common Values
Working
Who
Whom
Based
Start
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Tariq Ramadan
Free
Enormous
Our
Ways
Claim
Ourselves
Muslims
Would
Would-Be
Impact
Fact
Wrong
New
Ideas
Protecting
Principle
New Ideas
Coming
Traditional
Imposing
West
Question
Western
Much
Means
Now
I want to be an activist professor.
Tariq Ramadan
Want
Activist
Professor
The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
Tariq Ramadan
Army
Master
Become
Our
Both
Outside
He
Know
Vulnerable
Within
Brain
Camp
Effect
Itself
Psychology
Agencies
Who
Coordinate
Twice
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
Tariq Ramadan
Life
Diversity
Real Life
Tolerance
Our
Ourselves
Would
Seem
Rising
Invoke
Withdraw
Discomfort
Real
Theory
Societies
Levels
Raise
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan
Freedom
Fear
Passion
Our
Danger
Ourselves
Entertaining
About
Allowing
Most
Democratic
Identity
Democratic Societies
Blinded
Serious
Illusions
Societies
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
Tariq Ramadan
Society
Tools
Our
Must
Citizens
Religions
Practices
Understand
Provide
Symbols
Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
Tariq Ramadan
Needs
Survival
Country
Every
Immigrants
Economic
Europe
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