Monica Seles Quotes

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

- Monica Seles

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

- Monica Seles

I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.

- Monica Seles

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

- Monica Seles

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

- Monica Seles

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

- Monica Seles

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

- Monica Seles

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

- Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

- Monica Seles

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

- Monica Seles

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

- Monica Seles

Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.

- Monica Seles

I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.

- Monica Seles

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

- Monica Seles

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

- Monica Seles

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

- Monica Seles

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

- Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

- Monica Seles

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

- Monica Seles

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

- Monica Seles

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

- Monica Seles

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

- Monica Seles

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

- Monica Seles

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

- Monica Seles

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

- Monica Seles

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

- Monica Seles

I've always been a very private person.

- Monica Seles