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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAThere are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
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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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 want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
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I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.
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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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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.
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I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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I owe a lot to my parents.
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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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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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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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If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I’m all over that dog, all of the time.
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If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better – that is the true reward.
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I’d like to have a family.
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