Boris Becker quotes

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
- Boris Becker

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

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

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
- 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.
- Boris Becker

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

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

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

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
- 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.
- Boris Becker

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.
- 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.
- Boris Becker

So this is it. Match point for eternity.
- Boris Becker

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.
- Boris Becker

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

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
- Boris Becker

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

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.
- 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.
- Boris Becker

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
- Boris Becker

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

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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Boris Becker