Quotes by Monica Seles

About Monica Seles:

Monica Seles is a former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born and raised in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia. She is an ethnic Hungarian. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, winning eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and one while a citizen of the United States.
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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

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

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

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

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

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

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

Monica Seles

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

I've always been a very private person.

Monica Seles

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

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

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

I don't like salads: I like the strong food.

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

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

Monica Seles

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameMonica Seles
  • DescriptionYugoslav and American tennis player
  • BornDecember 2, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Socialist Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia; Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia
  • ProfessionTennis Player
  • AwardsInternational Tennis Hall Of Fame