Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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 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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How 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?
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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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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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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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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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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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