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!
BORIS BECKERThe suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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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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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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