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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.

Boris Becker

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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Firefighter Hero Life
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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Reading Son Years
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Eternity Match Point Sports
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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Children Responsibility Sports
I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Photograph Sports Taken
I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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Country Died People Start War
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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Clea Head Sports Squash
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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Men Sports Thinking
Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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Every Practice Something Time
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Asks Country Parent People
I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Lost Tennis War
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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Change Future People Sports
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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News Speak Sports Words
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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Parent Rocks Sports
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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Boys Finish Points Powerful Sports
Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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