I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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 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 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 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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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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