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"There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes."
"People love super heroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis? Because of virtue. A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward. Think about it. All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense. A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue."
"In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business-and I wanted to try to reflect that."
"The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words."
"I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War."
"Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else."
Explore more quotes by Boris Becker
"I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that."
"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."
"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."
"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."
"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 want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."
"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."
"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."
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