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" As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything. "
Top
Keep
Emotions
" 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. "
Journey
Best
Me
" 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.' "
Want
You
I Am
" For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest. "
Just
Me
Money
" I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust. "
I Am
Am
Whom
" I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business. "
More
Business
Than
" I don't like salads: I like the strong food. "
Salads
Food
Strong
" If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them. "
Person
Them
Will
" 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. "
Look
You
Generation
" I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay. "
Personality
Tennis
Dark Side
" 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. "
Lost
Early
Day
" I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods. "
Foods
Trying
Out
" I love to eat. "
Eat
Love
I Love
" I'm about the present. "
Present
About
" 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. "
Day
Christmas
Flying
" 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. "
Worry
Control
I Can
" I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble. "
Way
Emotional
Food
" I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball. "
Pretend
Ball
Attacking
" I've always been a very private person. "
Been
Private Person
Person
" 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. "
Day
Comeback
Who
" Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. "
Bread
Again
Life
" Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that. "
Control
Her
Life
" 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? "
Age
Hard Work
People
" 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. "
Her
Powerful
Women
" Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it. "
Live
Tennis
Make
" 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. "
Wear
Weight
You
" Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be. "
Guess
Tennis
Way
" That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun. "
Key
Fun
Key To Success
" 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. "
Stock Market
Live
Want
" You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top. "
Want
Every Day
You
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