Monica Seles

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.

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

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.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

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 love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.

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

I love to eat.

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.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.