The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
BORIS BECKERThe boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don’t have to come to the net to finish points. That’s the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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A 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.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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It’s not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it’s in the national side where you see a player’s true class.
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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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