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I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

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Boris Becker
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 22
Businessperson
Chess Player
Poker Player
Sports Commentator
Tennis Player
Boris Franz Becker
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I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
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Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
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So this is it. Match point for eternity.
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The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.
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Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.
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I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
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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.
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I didn't start a war. Nobody died.
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
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The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
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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.
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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.
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If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
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Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
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I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
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