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.
BORIS BECKERA 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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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 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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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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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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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