Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI 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.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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When you travel so many weeks a year, it’s always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
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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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Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
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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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Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I’d be on the front page of the paper.
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When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.
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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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Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it’s important to be pretty levelheaded.
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I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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I can’t say I don’t like acting, but I can’t imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.
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As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.
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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 don’t get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
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It’s always tough when you lose – you’ve worked so hard for that moment and it hasn’t gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there’s always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.
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I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it’s never going to be the same.
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