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.
BORIS BECKERTennis 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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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 believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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