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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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 know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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