Boris Becker Quotes
Boris Becker Quotes
- 1
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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- 2
Before, I wouldn't have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.
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- 3
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
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- 4
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
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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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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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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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- 8
I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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- 9
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
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- 10
I know what it's like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it's not something I'm striving for at the moment.
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- 11
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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- 12
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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- 13
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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- 14
I'm a different man now. I'm still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don't know.
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- 15
If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
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- 16
It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
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- 17
The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
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- 18
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 by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
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- 19
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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