71 Quotes by Boris Becker

I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

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

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn’t thinking about the big picture. I didn’t notice what they said on television, I wasn’t reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.

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.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah’s Ark.

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