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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAAs someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I’m always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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That’s why we have journalists, for stats.
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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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I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.
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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’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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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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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’d probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we’d all see who really uses them and who doesn’t.
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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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If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
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I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
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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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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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I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
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I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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You 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.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
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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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When you travel so many weeks a year, it’s always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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I’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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I don’t get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
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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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