Quotes by Boris Becker

About Boris Becker:

Boris Franz Becker is a German former world No. 1 professional tennis player. He is a six-time major singles champion, including the distinction of being the youngest ever Wimbledon men's champion when he was 17. He also won 13 Masters Series titles, five elite indoor titles (three ATP Tour Finals, a WCT Finals, and a Grand Slam Cup), and an Olympic gold medal in doubles. Tennis Magazine ranked Becker the 11th best male player of the period 1965–2005. He is currently coaching Novak Djokovic.
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Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

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.

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

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

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

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

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Boris Becker

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

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.

Boris Becker

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

Boris Becker

Author Bio

  • NameBoris Becker
  • DescriptionGerman tennis player
  • AliasesBoris Franz Becker
  • BornNovember 22, 1967
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionTennis Player; Television Presenter; Sportsperson; Entrepreneur
  • AwardsSilbernes Lorbeerblatt; Steiger Award