Boris Becker

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

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

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 believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.