Boris Becker Quotes

• 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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• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After, Son

• 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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  Topics in Honesty, Truth

• 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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  Topics in Love

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• I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

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  Topics in Life

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

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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 daughter you don’t see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Become

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

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  Tags in Many, Photographs

• Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

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

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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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care

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

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Winning

• 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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  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Lawyers

• I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

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  Topics in God, Mistake

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lost, Round

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinking, Tennis

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

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  Tags in World

• 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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  Tags in Hero

• 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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  Tags in Club

• 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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  Tags in Tournament

Boris Becker (31)

Birth:	22nd November, 1967
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Boris Becker was born in Leimen, Germany. He is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany and current coach of World Number 1, Novak Djokovic. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist in doubles, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17. Becker also won five major indoor championship titles including three ATP Masters World Tour Finals and one WCT Finals and one Grand Slam Cup. He also won five Masters 1000 series titles and eight Championship Series titles. Tennis Magazine put Becker in 18th place on its list of the 40 greatest tennis players from 1965 to 2005.

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