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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.

Boris Becker

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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Parent Rocks Sports
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.
BORIS BECKER

Games Mean Play
I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Lost Tennis War
Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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Best Next People World
I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Photograph Sports Taken
The 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.
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Boys Finish Points Powerful Sports
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!
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Club Girl Leave Sports White
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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Clea Head Sports Squash
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
BORIS BECKER

Firefighter Hero Life
The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
BORIS BECKER

Fifth Nerves Tennis
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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Case Country Figure Higher Player Rate
I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
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Change Future People Sports
Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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Tennis Way Winning
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Asks Country Parent People
I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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Country Died People Start War
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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Children Responsibility Sports

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