Boris Becker

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I’m going to get better that day.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don’t just react but are able to act and think.

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’m only superstitious on the tennis court.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,… My life was all about tennis. My office was the whole world. The word home didn’t really exist.

I don’t have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Today people hit the ball with much more strength. Almost every player is capable of playing a winning stroke from any position. This means the balls arrive more quickly. If you want to reach them, you have to slow down from a high speed or suddenly change direction. These are moments when you can injure yourself, and that’s what wears us out.