Graf Quotes & Sayings

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

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it. — Steffi Graf

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

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

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. — Steffi Graf

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.' — Steffi Graf

Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging ... in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. — Steffi Graf

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

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

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

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

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis. — Steffi Graf

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts. — Hermann Graf Keyserling

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

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

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

No plan survives the battle field. — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

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

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

I appreciate very much being injury-free. — Steffi Graf

If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect? — Arturo Graf

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose. — Steffi Graf

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

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks. — Steffi Graf

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. — Steffi Graf

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway. — Steffi Graf

I don't ever look back. I look forward. — Steffi Graf

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time. — Steffi Graf

Every war is a national misfortune. — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

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

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

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

You take it one day at a time. That's what you do. One day at a time. — Jennifer Graf Groneberg

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians. — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it. Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

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

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

If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with so much discipline, so much concentration and someone who likes to put a lot of passion into every point. Words fail to come out of me to describe his game appropriately. I've rarely seen anyone who approaches a ball with so much attention. With such passion and joy that it makes great fun to watch him. With him, you can associate everything that makes tennis so beautiful. — Steffi Graf

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children. — Steffi Graf

There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin. — Dan Maskell

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

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades. — Oksana Baiul

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

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

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct. — J.G. Ballard

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

How rich our German life is compared to France or England: what an abundance of social types and customs with completely different origins ... Germany is a world, whereas England and France, with their stereotypically divided three social classes, are but enlarged villages ... what a stage for a Balzac. — Harry Graf Kessler

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. — Hermann Graf Keyserling

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

It's the lifetime after the wedding that really counts, not the fanfare and ceremony of the day. — Linda R. Graf

Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations of Europe during the Second World War. The Jewish people thus loses its martyr status, and the State of Israel, whose establishing was approved by the world under the impression of an alleged 'unparalleled genocide,' would lose its legitimacy. — Jurgen Graf

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

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

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

I am a person who sticks to her word. — Steffi Graf

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

The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout. — Arturo Graf

Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it. — Arturo Graf

In one area in Serbia two villages have been reduced to ashes. In Greece 220 men of one village have been shot. In France there are extensive shootings while I write. Certainly more than a thousand people are murdered in this way every day and another thousand German men are habituated to murder. May I know this and yet sit at my table in my heated flat and have tea? What shall I say when I am asked: And what did you do during that time? How can anyone know these things and still walk around free? — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole. — Harry Graf Kessler

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved. — Steffi Graf

Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit. — Arturo Graf

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

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

No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke — Mike Cohn

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient. — Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

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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