I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
BORIS BECKERI believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
BORIS BECKERIts silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
BORIS BECKERI 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.
BORIS BECKERThat 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.
BORIS BECKERWe 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 BECKERWhen 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.
BORIS BECKERIf 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 BECKERHow 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?
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.
BORIS BECKERWinning is a way of expressing yourself.
BORIS BECKERI didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
BORIS BECKERI 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.
BORIS BECKERI believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
BORIS BECKERI 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.
BORIS BECKEREvery time you are not practicing someone else is.
BORIS BECKERIt’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.
BORIS BECKER