Monica Seles Quotes

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.'

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

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

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

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.

It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

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

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

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

I'm about the present.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've always been a very private person.