Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Yugoslavian Authors

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

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

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.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

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

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.

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.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

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

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.

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 never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

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

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.

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

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

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

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

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.

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

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

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

I'm about the present.

I've always been a very private person.