Quotes by Monica Seles

• 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?
• You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.
• That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
• Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
• 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 has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
• 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.
• 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.
• I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.
• I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.
• I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
• 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.