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Boris Becker

(1967) Tennis Player

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Boris Becker is a tennis player, best known for Artefakte.

Quick Facts About Boris Becker

Born: November 22, 1967
Profession: Tennis Player
Notable works: Artefakte

About Boris Becker

Boris Franz Becker is a German former professional tennis player, tennis coach and a commentator. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Becker is considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, winning 49 career singles and 15 doubles titles, including six singles majors: three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and one US Open. He also won 13 Masters titles, three year-end championships, an Olympic gold medal in men's doubles in 1992, and led Germany to two Davis Cup titles in 1988 and 1989. Becker is the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles Wimbledon title, a feat he accomplished aged 17 years, 7 months and 15 days in 1985.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Boris Becker

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because…

First love

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So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Eternity

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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.

Hero

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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without…

Autobiography

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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…

Children

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That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old…

Hard

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I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

Favourite

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I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

Go

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We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven't seen anyone - and I…

Able

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Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

Cost

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Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Funny

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The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Fifth

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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,…

Care

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I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

Died

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It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than…

Hero

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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Believe

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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.…

Exciting

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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I…

Big picture

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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.

Heart

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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

Clear

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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work…

Admirer

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I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

Millions

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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Children

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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

Express yourself

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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…

Black

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