I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
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 believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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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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Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?
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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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The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.
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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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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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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 haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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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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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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