Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
BORIS BECKERWhere do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
More Boris Becker Quotes
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I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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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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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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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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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.
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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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