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" 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. "
Boris Becker
Place
Tennis
Silly
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" 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. "
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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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" I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. "
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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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Place
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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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" I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. "
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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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" I'm not a God, I make mistakes. "
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Make
God
" I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home. "
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Home
Feel
City
" For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me. "
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" Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. "
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Clear
Head
Playing
" 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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You
Honesty
People
" 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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Black
White
Now
" It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office. "
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Day
Bad Day
Time
" I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me. "
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Been
Photographs
Many
" 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. "
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Trust
Old
Men
" I believed in raising my children as I had been raised. "
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Raised
Raising
Children
" So this is it. Match point for eternity. "
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Point
Eternity
Match
" 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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Future
History
I Can
" 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? "
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Relationship
Love
Child
" 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. "
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Never
Girlfriend
Important
" I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading. "
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Great
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