I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
BORIS BECKEREvery time you are not practicing someone else is.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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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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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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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 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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