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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. "
Know
Son
Story
" 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. "
You
Honesty
People
" Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived? "
How
Does
Ask
" For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me. "
Me
Coming
Had
" 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. "
Never
Girlfriend
Important
" 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? "
Relationship
Love
Child
" I believed in raising my children as I had been raised. "
Raised
Raising
Children
" I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. "
I Believe
Reason
Life
" I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. "
Future
History
I Can
" I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me. "
Been
Photographs
Many
" 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. "
Start
Place
Man
" 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! "
Black
White
Now
" I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home. "
Home
Feel
City
" I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading. "
Just
Great
Go
" 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. "
Lost
Hotel
Rock
" I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. "
Take
I Can
Losing
" I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility. "
Advice
Time
Responsibility
" I'm not a God, I make mistakes. "
Mistakes
Make
God
" It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place. "
Place
Tennis
Silly
" It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office. "
Day
Bad Day
Time
" I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. "
Know
Small
Short
" 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. "
Reading
Me
Picture
" So this is it. Match point for eternity. "
Point
Eternity
Match
" Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. "
Clear
Head
Playing
" 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. "
Trust
Old
Men
" 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. "
Death
Me
Speak
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