Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
BORIS BECKERThe 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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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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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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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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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