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.
BORIS BECKERDoes anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
More Boris Becker Quotes
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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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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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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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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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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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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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