When you are young, you are a little naive.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen you are young, you are a little naive.
MARIA SHARAPOVAIt’s pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that’s just the way it is.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen you’re going through tough moments, you never know when you’re going to have good moments.
MARIA SHARAPOVAIf 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.
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’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.
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.
MARIA SHARAPOVASometimes 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen I walk through that gate to the court, that’s my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
MARIA SHARAPOVAEver since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
MARIA SHARAPOVAIf everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI owe a lot to my parents.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.
MARIA SHARAPOVA