Boris Becker Quotes

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• Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
• Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love…
• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated…
• I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
• 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…
• I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.
• For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
• I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
• 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…
• An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close…
• Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
• I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
• I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
• 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…
• The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
• Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed…
• Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
• The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.
• Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

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