Boris Becker Quotes

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

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

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.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

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

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'm not a God, I make mistakes.

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?

We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven't seen anyone - and I mean anyone - play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated - and the wonderful feel he has stays with him - he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.

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

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.

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

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

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

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

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