In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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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 owe a lot to my parents.
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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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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’m just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don’t want to lose.
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If you’re able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that’s worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
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I don’t get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
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Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That’s a tradition I miss.
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I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.
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I can’t please everyone. That’s not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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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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The more matches I play, the more confident I get.
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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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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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Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It’s a way to communicate oneself.
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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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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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If I’m nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it’s playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it’s those moments that you feel you’ve trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.
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I’m focused on going out every day and doing my best.
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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’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.
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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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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It’s not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.
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