Boris Becker

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

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 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 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.

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

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.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The opposite of love isn’t hate. It isn’t even indifference. It’s fear.

Who, being loved, is poor?

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

I’m well acquainted with villains that live in my head.

Real love is freedom, and this is what you’ve been given by the Creator – the freedom to love and to choose your own path.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

I’d tell you how beautiful you look today, but there’s not enough time before sunset to tell how you set fire to a sundress; my mouth is overflowing from yesterday.

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

I’m only ever in two places – with you or on the way.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.