When I’m down or maybe when it’s close in the match, I feel like I’m still in it. I don’t feel like I’m letting down. Mentally, I’m still really, really tough.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI 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.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing…I could talk.
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When you’re going through tough moments, you never know when you’re going to have good moments.
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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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There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can’t miss a ball.
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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.
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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It’s been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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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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I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
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I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.
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Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It’s a way to communicate oneself.
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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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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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Sugar free? With the name Sugarpova I don’t think I will be doing anything sugar free very soon.
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