Steffi Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Now Steffi - I'd done okay through most of the autopsy, but right about then I started feeling decidedly chuck-upsy.

Stephen King

#3. 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

#4. The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.

Kim Baldwin

#5. Steffi wasn't tired anymore. In fact, she felt invigorated. She was going to make it. She needed more of those kisses.

Kim Baldwin

#6. There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.

Dan Maskell

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

Jane Green

#10. Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Stephen King

#11. I don't ever look back. I look forward.

Steffi Graf

#12. My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Steffi Graf

#13. It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

Steffi Graf

#14. When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Steffi Graf

#15. As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Steffi Graf

#16. I am a person who sticks to her word.

Steffi Graf

#17. 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

#18. 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

#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

#21. It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

Steffi Graf

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Steffi Graf

#25. Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Steffi Graf

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

Steffi Graf

#31. I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

Steffi Graf

#32. 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

#33. I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

Steffi Graf

#34. I appreciate very much being injury-free.

Steffi Graf

#35. I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

Steffi Graf

#36. It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

Steffi Graf

#37. 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

#38. I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

Steffi Graf

#39. 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

#40. 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