I’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
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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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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 think it’s so cool to be tall. Even when I’m not wearing heels people tell me I’m tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
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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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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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When I’m down or maybe when it’s close in the match, I feel like I’m still in it. I don’t feel like I’m letting down. Mentally, I’m still really, really tough.
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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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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 owe a lot to my parents.
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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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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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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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I’d like to have a family.
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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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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 think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it’s never going to be the same.
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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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That’s why we have journalists, for stats.
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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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Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
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When I come into a tournament, I’m expecting to win. That’s my philosophy. I can’t go to a tournament thinking, ‘I’m going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.’
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As 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.
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I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
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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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Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It’s a way to communicate oneself.
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I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
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