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.
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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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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 didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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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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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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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 believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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