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• 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.

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

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• My big dream was to work as a photographer for ‘National Geographic.’

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I suppose it’s amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

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• I never hanker after the past – I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I don’t like the word ‘businesswoman.’ Perhaps ‘committed mother’ would be the best description.

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• I am a person who sticks to her word.

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

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• Age, what is it? It’s not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

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• You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

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• The tennis wasn’t really very much on my mind, so it wasn’t like I was thinking about it all the time.

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• It’s so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

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• It shifted attention away from that and I’ve never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

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

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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.

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• I never look back, I look forward.

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Birth:	14th June, 1969
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Tennis Player

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