Boris Becker Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Winning, Play

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Honesty, People

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

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Want, Can't Change

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

  Boris Becker

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Clear Head, Squash

  "Prosectors demand jail for Becker". www.cnn.com. October 23, 2002.

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Years, Weirdo

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Powerful, Boys

• 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!

  Boris Becker

  Girl, Sports, White

• I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Children, Responsibility

• So this is it. Match point for eternity.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Eternity, Match Point

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Words You Speak, News

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Eye, Thinking

• How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

• Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Silly

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Reading, Thinking

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

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Taken, Photograph

• 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.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Rocks, Parent

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