Monica Seles

“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 don't like salads: I like the strong food.”

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

“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 think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.”

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

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

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

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