Boris Becker

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.

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

Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?

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

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

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.

I’m ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed – I can’t do it. I’m clueless.

The favorite is always the No. 1. I can win. Blake can win. But the favorite is the No. 1.

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

In tennis, because of the way it’s scored, I don’t think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

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.

The guy comes up to the plate, there’s always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

I’m not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I’m amongst the best. That’s true. That’s enough for me.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

I always work with a goal – and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

For sure, with golf it’s not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That’s what makes tennis great – you combine both things. It’s a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.