Monica Seles quotes

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun. (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
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
What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
Monica Seles
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
Monica Seles
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
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
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.
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
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Monica Seles
You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top. (Monica Seles)
I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
Monica Seles
I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
Monica Seles
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
Monica Seles
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.
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
I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
Monica Seles
I'm about the present.
Monica Seles
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.
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