Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Selesis a former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. An ethnic Hungarian, she was born and raised in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and the final as a citizen of United States of America. In 1990, Seles became...
NationalityYugoslavian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth2 December 1973
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?
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
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.
I'm about the present.
I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that
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.
I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
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.
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.
That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.