Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
BORIS BECKERWe 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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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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 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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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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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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 haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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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 suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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