Boris Becker's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

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 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.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

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

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

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

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.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

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

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

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

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

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!

It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.