Motivation Quote by Gabriela Sabatini

Sabatini’s slightly awkward phrasing does half the work here: it lands like someone pushing back against a story that got written for her, in a language that isn’t her native armor. “So much affairs of me created by the media” isn’t just a complaint about gossip; it’s a reminder that celebrity doesn’t merely document your life, it manufactures it. The passive construction (“created by the media”) shifts agency where she wants it: away from her body, her choices, her private timeline, and onto the machinery that profits from turning an athlete into a narrative.

The second beat is the tell. “Of course I was not always a true single” is a concession, but also a negotiation. She admits the human reality without granting tabloids the satisfaction of specifics. “True single” reads like a label she’s been forced to wear - the chaste, disciplined tennis star whose personal life becomes a moral scoreboard. She’s correcting the record while refusing to play the usual confessional game.

Then comes the strategically vague grenade: “once also to a famous pop star.” It’s a wink and a boundary at the same time. She acknowledges the kind of headline the press craves, but keeps the name off the page, denying the media the clean commodity of a cross-brand romance. In the context of women athletes, especially in the 80s and 90s, this is also about reclaiming personhood from a coverage ecosystem that treats performance as secondary to availability, desirability, and “mystery.” Sabatini isn’t asking to be believed so much as insisting she’s not a character in someone else’s script.