Monica Seles Quotes

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.

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

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings…. if I’ve learned one thing from all that’shappened to me, it’s that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.’

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.

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.

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

I’ve always been a very private person.

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

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.

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 never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

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

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

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

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

I love to eat.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

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

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

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

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?

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.

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

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