Boris Becker

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

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 a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

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

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,… My life was all about tennis. My office was the whole world. The word home didn’t really exist.

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl.

She was always a little crazy, which is why I understand her so well.

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.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

I’m a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It’s very scary. I’m open to it, but I just want to make sure that I’m taking my time.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.