"I appreciate very much being injury-free." - Steffi 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
"I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape." - Steffi Graf
"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." - Steffi Graf
"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
"I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time." - Steffi Graf
"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." - Steffi Graf
"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." - Steffi Graf
"It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway." - Steffi Graf
"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." - Steffi Graf
"It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis." - Steffi Graf
"Melbourne is one of my favourite cities - honestly." - Steffi Graf
"No, I've never been one for the records." - Steffi Graf
"Once I go into a tournament I don't think so much about the seedings or the match-ups too much." - 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
"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." - Steffi Graf