Monica Seles Quotes

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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…
• I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
• Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
• Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
• 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…
• 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
• I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
• 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?
• 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…
• 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…
• I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
• Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that
• 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…
• I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
• 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…
• I'm about the present.
• 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.
• I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.
• I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

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