The best Quotes by Boris Becker

The best Quotes by Boris Becker

Boris Franz Becker (born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker is the youngest-ever winner of the gentlemen's singles Wimbledon Championships title, a feat he accomplished aged 17 in 1985.

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.

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Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54%! In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

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

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Every good tennis player has to have a short memory.

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

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I'll let the racket do the talking.

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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.

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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.

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They fire coaches before players.

Doug Pederson

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.

Roger Staubach

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

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

Islands Surfing

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.

Uli Hoeneß - September 2021

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

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

Novak Djokovic

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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.

Novak Djokovic

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.

Alexander Zverev

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

Alexander Zverev

We have many animals in Switzerland - even goats.

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

Roger Federer

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Positive Quotes

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

Serena Williams

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Laughing & Smile

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

Serena Williams

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Dreaming Motivation

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

Arthur Ashe

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

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Success Self-Confidence

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.

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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.

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

André Agassi

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

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

Martina Navratilova

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.

Martina Navratilova

Quitting is never an option.

Ana Ivanovic

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Giving Up Motivation

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

Ana Ivanovic

Age Self-Confidence

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.

Pete Sampras

Ambition Sports

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

Pete Sampras

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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