The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
BORIS BECKERIt’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.
More Boris Becker Quotes
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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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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 believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
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I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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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 believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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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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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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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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