Monica Seles Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I’ve always been a very private person.

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• I’m about the present.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I don’t like salads: I like the strong food.

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

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• I am lucky to have -advisers whom I trust.

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

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• 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.’

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

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• 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.

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

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

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Monica Seles (30)

Birth:	2nd December, 1973
Nationality:	American, Hungarian, Yugoslavian
Profession:	Tennis Player

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