Steffi Graf Quotes

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

I played at the highest level for 17 years and won so many titles.

I've never been one of those guys who wants to put up titles and championships and run around and brag.

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

My goal was never to be the best. I always wanted to make my money, and, of course, I always wanted to win my fight. Because if you keep winning, people got to say 'yeah, he is the best middleweight.' But to be honest I don't care.

I'm desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven't been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.

If you play a final and win it, you get that feeling to win trophies, and you want to win more and more and more.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.

Obviously I want to win all the big tournaments - I would hate to look back and not have won them. I also think, for me, there's something about reaching a certain level rather than getting a certain number of wins.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

I learned that you've never made it, you've never arrived, you're never too good, you're never above anybody else.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."