I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
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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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 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 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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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