Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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 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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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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