The best Quotes by Boris Becker

Does the person in TV have to be better than the one watching at home?

Sometimes, I feel like I'm 40. Tennis years are like dog years.

The coach is always as good and as bad as the player. When the player loses, it's the coaches fault. When the player wins, the coach made a great job. It's the same in tennis and in football.

When I'm not losing, the other guy can't win.

Winning is an incredible joy that no woman can give you.

A lonely island isn't a good thing if you're on it with the wrong person.

It doesn't matter if you're number two or number five. What matters is being number one.

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.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory.

Physically, the top players are on a different level to other players, and that's why they're on the top.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

They fire coaches before players.

Behin every fearless player is a fearless coach who refused to let them be anything but the best they can be.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

Island days. Island ways. Surfing, sun and sunny rays.

Now would be the perfect time for, "Congratulations! You've done great over the last years. Here's your own island and a million dollars."

If Barcelona was a German club, they'd be a case for a liquidator.

When I arrived at Barcelona and saw Messi's face, and later Luis Suarez, I felt like it was a videogame.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

We have many animals in Switzerland - even goats.

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

I don't know how good mountain lions do in captivity. I'm curious.

You get these Satanists types that don't believe in God. OK, so you realize you don't get Satan if you don't get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can't have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don't bring ghosts along with you.

Harry and Meghan, move over! This is what fairy tales are made of. They'd been together for two whole weeks, which for teenagers is basically a lifetime of monogamy. Although between us, it had been a surprisingly PG-13 two weeks.

Aunties are older Indian women who have no blood-relation to you. But are allowed to have opinions about your life and all your shortcomings. And you have to be nice to them because you're Indian.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

Quitting is never an option.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.