Boris Becker

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

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

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.

The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.

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?

If I’m not interested in a woman, I’m straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!’

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

I love my husband, but my girlfriends are my sanity.

I probably didn’t handle things as diplomatically as I should.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

It isn’t about how tall you are or how good-looking you are or whether or not you can play football. It’s about whether you can create a relationship.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.

A friend is a second self.

The most beautiful girls wear their hearts on their sleeves and their souls in their smiles.

A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before you will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

It’s very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they’ve made to my life.

Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.