Monica Seles Quotes


"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Day, Play, Want)

"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Success, Fun, Key)

"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Tennis)

"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
(Related: Christmas, Day, Flying)

"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Tennis)

"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
(Related: Love, People, Care, England, Tennis, Will)

"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
(Related: Motivation, Control, Old, Worry)

"I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball."
- Monica Seles
"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Personality, Tennis)

"I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Business, Tennis)

"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
(Related: Christmas, Day, Journey)

"Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that."
- Monica Seles
(Related: Women, Life, Control)