Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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 haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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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 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 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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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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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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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