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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.

Boris Becker

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
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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Case Country Figure Higher Player Rate
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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Asks Country Parent People
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
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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Club Girl Leave Sports White
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
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
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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Silly Sports Stupid
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Eternity Match Point Sports
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
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
The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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Fifth Nerves Tennis
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
I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Lost Tennis War
Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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Every Practice Something Time
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

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