I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’m always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I’m on the go again.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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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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As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.
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No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
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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 hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
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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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Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
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I love where I’m from. I don’t live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It’s what’s inside, it’s not what’s outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
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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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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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I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
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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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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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There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
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I’m always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I’m on the go again.
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My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn’t necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.
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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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I’m always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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The more matches I play, the more confident I get.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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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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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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There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can’t miss a ball.
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