Steffi Graf Quotes

"I appreciate very much being injury-free."
"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."
"I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape."
"I know where I'm coming from and what I've achieved, so I think I'm very stable in that so it doesn't bother me."
"I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows."
"I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time."
"I've been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament you've got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it."
"It is difficult for me always to let go, and I am still eager, but I'm taking things maybe a little lighter at times."
"It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway."
"It's definitely a different generation and if you look at Venus and Serena they are physically just so much stronger, and they are all starting to use different racquets now, the bigger ones, which help give more power."
"It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis."
"Melbourne is one of my favourite cities - honestly."
"No, I've never been one for the records."
"Once I go into a tournament I don't think so much about the seedings or the match-ups too much."
"The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time."
"Yeah, because I did have a few weeks off with my wrist surgery, and I didn't expect to be back so quickly and then so well."
"You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others."
"I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it."
"It is not easy for me to live with, knowing that I'm Number 1 because she was attacked [on Monica Seles]"