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.
Boris Becker
2
Before, I wouldn't have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.
Boris Becker
3
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Boris Becker
4
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
Boris Becker
5
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.
Boris Becker
6
I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
Boris Becker
7
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
Boris Becker
8
I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
Boris Becker
9
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
Boris Becker
10
I know what it's like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it's not something I'm striving for at the moment.
Boris Becker
11
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.
Boris Becker
12
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.
Boris Becker
13
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.
Boris Becker
14
I'm a different man now. I'm still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don't know.
Boris Becker
15
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!
Boris Becker
16
It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
Boris Becker
17
The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
Boris Becker
18
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.
Boris Becker
19
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.
Boris Becker
