Monica Seles Quotes

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

  Monica Seles

  Sports, Inspirational Sports, Tennis

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

  Monica Seles

  Funny Life, Pasta, Bread

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• I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

  Monica Seles

  Worry, Trying, May

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

  Monica Seles

  Success, Sports, Fun

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

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Balls, Used

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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

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Tough, Realizing

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• I'm about the present.

  Monica Seles

  Tennis

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• I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

  Monica Seles

  Nice, Happy Life, Games

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

  Monica Seles

  Play, Tennis, Want

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• 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.

  Monica Seles

  Motivational, Sports, Giving

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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 sport there

  Monica Seles

  Sports, Dark, Years

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• 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.

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Way, Used

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• It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

  Monica Seles

  Color, Skins, Complaining

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

  Monica Seles

  Sports, Tennis, Way

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

  Monica Seles

  Sports, Dark, Tennis

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• I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

  Monica Seles

  Lucky, Adviser

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• I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

  Monica Seles

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

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

  Monica Seles

  Emotional, Thinking, Way

  "Seles' story: diets, demons and healing". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Motivational Tennis, Strokes

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

  Monica Seles

  Strong, Salad

  "Interview: Monica Seles" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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

  Monica Seles

  Sports

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• 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.

  Monica Seles

  Moving, Feet, Long

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• 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

  Christmas, Sports, Mean

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• What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

  Monica Seles

  Safe, Want, Lifetime

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