Explore Quotes by Monica Seles

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.