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

Meaning of the quote

To be successful, you need to enjoy what you do. If you have fun with your work or activities, you'll be more motivated to keep trying and getting better. When you find joy in your goals, it becomes easier to put in the effort needed to achieve them.

About Monica Seles

Monica Seles was a dominant tennis player in the early 1990s, winning 9 Grand Slam titles before a shocking on-court attack ended her reign at the top. Despite her return to the sport, she was unable to consistently reach the heights of her early career, though she is still regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

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Tennis has to become everything to you if you’re going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that’s the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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?

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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.

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player

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

Monica Seles

Yugoslav and American tennis player