I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
BORIS BECKERHow 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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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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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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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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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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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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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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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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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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 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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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
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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 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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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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