I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
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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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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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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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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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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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 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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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 didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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