Boris Becker
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Beckeris a German former world No. 1 professional tennis player. He is a six-time major singles champion; including, having been the youngest Wimbledon men's champion when he was 17. He also won 13 Masters Series titles, five elite indoor titles. He is the only player to have won all 3 Open era season end finals ATP Tour Finals, WCT Finalsand Grand Slam Cup. Becker also won Olympic gold medal in doubles. Tennis magazine ranked Becker the 18th best...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth22 November 1967
CityLeimen, Germany
CountryGermany
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
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.
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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.
Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
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.
I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.
It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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.
I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.