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.
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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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 didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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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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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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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 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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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