I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
BORIS BECKERIts silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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 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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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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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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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