Boris Becker

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to win the gold medal in both events,

I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

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

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.

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.

Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you dont have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when youve finished, nothings changed. Youve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

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

We’ll try and be very aggressive, we’ll try and speed up and change gears, and we’ll see who’s going to win.

I like a lot of sports. Especially football – it’s my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

Some clubs are treated as devils, some are treated as angels.

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.

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one’s opponent, one’s conduct on the court.

My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

For me, pressure is bird flu. I’m feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It’s not fun and I’m more scared of it than football.

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

Because, to give a goal, the ball must be 100% in and he must be 100% sure that the ball is in.

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical – I like the music. I saw ‘Mamma Mia;’ I saw ‘Les Miserables;’ I saw ‘Phantom of the Opera’ like six, seven times.

For sure, I’m going to play less matches because I think it’s very difficult to win the same number of matches as last year. Maybe I’m going to play a little bit less, but I like playing tournaments; so if I feel good, I going to play for sure.

More than anything, believe that you can win.