Boris Becker

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

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.

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?

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.

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 fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.

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.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

The young people got me interested in aviation. It is part of the motor age. Development is dependent on power.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.