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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.

Boris Becker

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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Games Mean Play
I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Lost Tennis War
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Eternity Match Point Sports
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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Firefighter Hero Life
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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Daughter Mother Relationship Sports
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Asks Country Parent People
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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Children Responsibility Sports
Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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Tennis Way Winning
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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Player Team Winning
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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Parent Rocks Sports
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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Boys Finish Points Powerful Sports
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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News Speak Sports Words
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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Change Future People Sports
I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Believed Children Raised
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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Clea Head Sports Squash
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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Reading Son Years

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