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| Saying/Quote | Nature | Element | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives |  |
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318 |
| I'm not a God, I make mistakes |  |
 |
306 |
| I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to win the gold medal in both events | |
|
306 |
| I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that | |
 |
305 |
| I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play | |
|
293 |
| 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 |  |
|
291 |
| I didn't kill nobody; I didn't rape no children; I had sex with a woman who wasn't my wife. It was wrong, but I paid for it |  |
|
280 |
| 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 | |
|
278 |
| The African-Americans think I'm their brother; the Germans think I'm their property; the Catholics think I'm their ministrant. I can't please them. I have to live my life | |
|
239 |
| You should have heard the flak I took for having my racket blessed. They said it was a cheap publicity stunt and conveniently ignored how important my faith and the audience with Johannes Paul was for me | |
|
238 |
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| I had just won my third Wimbledon and had the best year of my career but after five or six years on the treadmill, internally and emotionally, I was turning into a basket case | |
|
235 |
| So this is it. Match point for eternity | |
|
233 |
| Before, I wouldn't have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara | |
|
233 |
| I was playing one match at a time. It was only after I won that my life changed | |
|
231 |
| I don't go to bed with strangers | |
|
228 |
| The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart | |
|
226 |
| I believe that everything in life happens for a reason | |
|
223 |
| I had beaten a lot of players. Being beaten in tennis is not the same as being beaten in football. Tennis is one-to-one combat-you physically, mentally and emotionally beat the other guy. When you've done that for 15 years it creates a lot of resentment | |
|
222 |
| If there is one environment I feel comfortable in, it's Wimbledon. Everybody knows me: the guards on the gate, the journalists, the chairman, the linesmen. I feel very comfortable | |
|
212 |
| I still feel like I'm a 17-year-old | |
|
207 |
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| 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 | |
|
201 |
| 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! | |
|
201 |
| My life was all about tennis. My office was the whole world. The word home didn't really exist | |
|
200 |
| 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 | |
|
200 |
| Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived? | |
|
198 |
| I believed in raising my children as I had been raised | |
 |
197 |
| The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls | |
|
190 |
| Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing | |
|
188 |
| My kids and the five weeks we spend together is always the best time of the year | |
|
187 |
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| 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 | |
|
187 |
| I started to focus on my personal well-being; I wanted to find out what it was like to be in love | |
|
186 |
| I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home | |
|
184 |
| I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading | |
|
182 |
| 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 | |
|
181 |
| 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 | |
|
174 |
| I am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I've faced on centre court will stand me in good stead to battle it out against Ian and his team | |
|
173 |
| 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 | |
|
173 |
| Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next? | |
|
171 |
| 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 | |
|
170 |
| 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 | |
|
169 |
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| I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me | |
|
168 |
| The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago | |
|
160 |
| That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things | |
|
160 |
| I served as a ministrant for years. My family never missed church on Sundays. Thou shall keep holy the sabbath day | |
|
160 |
| 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? | |
|
160 |
| 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 | |
|
157 |
| 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 | |
|
152 |
| For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me | |
|
148 |
| It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office | |
|
128 |
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