Monica Seles Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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