Monica Seles Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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