When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner – and how that winner might be me.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWe all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I’m always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day.
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It’s pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that’s just the way it is.
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I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
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It’ll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But I’ll get my revenge.
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My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
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Sometimes when you’re putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work’s going to pay off.
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I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.
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I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
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It’s strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
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I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.
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I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.
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I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
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I don’t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, ‘Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.’ I just like being myself.
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I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they’re wearing.
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I’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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