The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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 didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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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 believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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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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