I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI owe a lot to my parents.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen you are young, you are a little naive.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI help design my own tennis clothes.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen 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 SHARAPOVAI’d probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we’d all see who really uses them and who doesn’t.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI love to collect modern art.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it’s never going to be the same.
MARIA SHARAPOVAThe more matches I play, the more confident I get.
MARIA SHARAPOVASince I’m constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’m just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don’t want to lose.
MARIA SHARAPOVAYou have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it’s been a good ride so far, but it’s not over yet.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI don’t get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVA