Top 40 Monica Seles Quotes
#1. When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.
Serena Williams
#2. As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
Don Yaeger
#3. Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Peter Ustinov
#4. My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.
Tom Brady
#5. She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.
Virginia Wade
#6. 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.
Monica Seles
#7. I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
Monica Seles
#8. Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Monica Seles
#9. 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
#10. I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.
Monica Seles
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Monica Seles
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
Monica Seles
#18. 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.
Monica Seles
#19. I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.
Monica Seles
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
Monica Seles
#23. I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
Monica Seles
#24. As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.
Monica Seles
#25. 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.
Monica Seles
#26. 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
#27. I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
Monica Seles
#28. 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
#30. You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.
Monica Seles
#31. Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.
Monica Seles
#32. I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.
Monica Seles
#33. If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.
Monica Seles
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
Monica Seles
#37. 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
#38. For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.
Monica Seles
#39. I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.
Monica Seles
#40. 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
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