Explore Quotes by Monica Seles

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

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

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.

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

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.

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.

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've always been a very private person.

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.

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

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 like salads: I like the strong food.

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

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

I'm about the present.

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

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

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.

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