I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
BORIS BECKERTennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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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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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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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 believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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 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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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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.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
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