Boris Becker

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

I’m a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

[Roger Federer] We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven’t seen anyone – and I mean anyone – play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated – and the wonderful feel he has stays with him – he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.

The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don’t have to come to the net to finish points. That’s the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

I’m going to let people know that it’s cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It’s really tough, but I’m doing it.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

The joy is still there when I see Sean. He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all his things. But he is my biggest pride.

My siblings are my best friends.

I always sort of felt like the eight years that Barack was president, it was sort of like having the good parent at home. You know, the responsible parent, the one who told you to eat your carrots and go to bed on time.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

It’s her first grandchild, so she’s really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. – Jeffrey Kluger

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.

I’ve always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I’m right on schedule.

A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.

My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.