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.
BORIS BECKERI can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
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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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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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 suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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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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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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 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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