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 believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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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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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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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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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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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 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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
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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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