I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
BORIS BECKERSo this is it. Match point for eternity.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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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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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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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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 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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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