Top 62 Graf's Quotes
#1. I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.
Chris Evert
#2. The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
Steffi Graf
#3. My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'
Steffi Graf
#4. It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
Hermann Graf Keyserling
#5. Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
Harry Graf Kessler
#6. The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.
Arturo Graf
#7. It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.
Steffi Graf
#8. When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf
#9. As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
Steffi Graf
#10. A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.
Andre Agassi
#11. My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.
Tom Brady
#12. All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
#14. There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.
Dan Maskell
#15. I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.
Steffi Graf
#16. I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
Oksana Baiul
#17. Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
Steffi Graf
#18. No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke
Mike Cohn
#19. Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.
Steffi Graf
#20. I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.
Steffi Graf
#22. It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.
Steffi Graf
#23. I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.
Steffi Graf
#24. I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.
Steffi Graf
#25. The Uberlingen Chief of Police Jakob Graf, was severely wounded in this explosion. It has now become questionable as to whether the weapons he collected were for the Gestapo or the invading French troops.
Hank Bracker
#26. Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.
Steffi Graf
#27. I don't ever look back. I look forward.
Steffi Graf
#28. It's the lifetime after the wedding that really counts, not the fanfare and ceremony of the day.
Linda R. Graf
#31. Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
Arturo Graf
#33. When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.
Serena Williams
#34. Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.
Steffi Graf
#35. One of the ways over the years that the church has severely weakened corporate prayer is that we let prayer be about the people there, rather than about God. We
Jonathan L Graf
#36. If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.
Steffi Graf
#38. What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
Harry Graf Kessler
#39. I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.
Steffi Graf
#40. I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
Steffi Graf
#41. Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit.
Arturo Graf
#43. It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.
Steffi Graf
#44. I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.
Steffi Graf
#45. I appreciate very much being injury-free.
Steffi Graf
#46. I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.
Steffi Graf
#48. You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
Steffi Graf
#49. The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.
Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke
#50. I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.
Harry Graf Kessler
#51. It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.
Harry Graf Kessler
#52. Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me
and in the end, that is a man's duty.
Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke
#53. When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
#54. You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
Steffi Graf
#55. I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.
Steffi Graf
#56. There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.
Steffi Graf
#57. I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.
Steffi Graf
#59. You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.
Steffi Graf
#60. Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.
Steffi Graf
#62. If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?
Arturo Graf
