Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
BORIS BECKERThe fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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 haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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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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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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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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