Quotes from Boris Becker

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.

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.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

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.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Man sagt ja, die Erinnerung male mit einem goldenen Pinsel.

Dort, wo es wehtut, entsteht Hornhaut, auch auf der Seele.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves

People forget sometimes, in order to become number one, you have to be a bit crazy. You have to do things out of the norm.

The hardest thing in tennis is to forget the double fault or the missed chances, and most players can't. Only the very good ones clean them out and really look forward to the next chance.

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.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

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

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.

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.

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