Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
— Monica Seles
If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.
What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
I've always been a very private person.
As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.
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.
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.
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?
That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
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 love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.
For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.
I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.
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.
I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.
I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
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.
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 have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
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.
I love to eat.
I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
I'm about the present.
I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
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.
