The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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.
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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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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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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 don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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 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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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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