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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Written by Boris Becker
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
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?
Written by Boris Becker
I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
Written by Boris Becker
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
Written by Boris Becker
I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
Written by Boris Becker
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
Written by Boris Becker
I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
Written by Boris Becker
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
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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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
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!
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
Written by Boris Becker
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
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.
Written by Boris Becker
Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
Written by Boris Becker
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
Written by Boris Becker

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