Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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 haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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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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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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