Boris Becker Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
-
I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
-
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
-
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
-
Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
-
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
-
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
I fight because I like challenges.
-
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
-
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
-
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
-
I am happy in Paris.
-
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
-
Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
-
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
-
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
-
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
-
I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that take place. It was unnerving reading the script. I kind of felt nauseous after reading it.
-
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
-
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
-
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.
