I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
BORIS BECKERThe fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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