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.
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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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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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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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