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.
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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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That 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.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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 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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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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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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 is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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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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