If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It’s as if I’m racist towards white girls!
BORIS BECKERA few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah’s Ark.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
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We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven’t seen anyone – and I mean anyone – play before.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
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When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
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Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
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That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that’s why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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