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.
BORIS BECKERI 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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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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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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 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 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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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