I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
BORIS BECKERThe fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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 didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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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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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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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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