Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
BORIS BECKERTennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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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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Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
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How do you build a relationship when you’ve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don’t see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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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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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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