Boris Becker Quotes

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• I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

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  Sports, Winning, Play

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• I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

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  War, Tennis, Lost

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• Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

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• I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

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  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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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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  Sports, Want, Can't Change

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• Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

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  Winning, Tennis, Way

  "The final stand-off". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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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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  Sports, Clear Head, Squash

  "Prosectors demand jail for Becker". www.cnn.com. October 23, 2002.

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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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  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

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  World, Next, You Re The Best

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• Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

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  Girl, Tennis, Cost

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

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  Tennis, Nerves, Fifth

  FaceBook post by Boris Becker from Oct 22, 2013

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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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  Sports, Children, Responsibility

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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 coming too close to other people's privacy.

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  Sports, Honesty, People

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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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  Life, Hero, Firefighter

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• So this is it. Match point for eternity.

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  Sports, Eternity, Match Point

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• I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, I Make Mistakes

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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. 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. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

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  Team, Winning, Player

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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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  Jobs, Nice, Heart

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• 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 support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

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  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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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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  Sports, Words You Speak, News

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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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  Sports, Stupid, Silly

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

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  Sports, Taken, Photograph

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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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  Reading, Son, Years

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• 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 was tennis.

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  Girl, First Love, Two

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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 wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

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  Sports, Reading, Thinking

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