I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
BORIS BECKEREvery time you are not practicing someone else is.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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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 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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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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