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.
BORIS BECKERI believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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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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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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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 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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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