I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
BORIS BECKEREvery time you are not practicing someone else is.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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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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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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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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