Boris Becker

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

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.

The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

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.