Boris Becker

Before, I wouldn’t have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

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

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

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.

I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.