Boris Becker Quotes

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

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

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!

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

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

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.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

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

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

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.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

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.

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.

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

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

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

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

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

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.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

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.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

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.

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.

I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

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

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

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

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

It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.