Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
BORIS BECKERTennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
BORIS BECKERI 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.
BORIS BECKERA 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.
BORIS BECKERI 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.
BORIS BECKERTennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
BORIS BECKERHow 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?
BORIS BECKERI believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
BORIS BECKERI can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
BORIS BECKERThe fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
BORIS BECKERI don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
BORIS BECKERThe 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.
BORIS BECKERIf 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!
BORIS BECKERI want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
BORIS BECKERWhen 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.
BORIS BECKERWe 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.
BORIS BECKERIts 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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