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.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don’t remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

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?

I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

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 believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

Imitate, assimilate and innovate.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.