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.
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 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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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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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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