I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI love to collect modern art.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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 SHARAPOVAWhen I walk through that gate to the court, that’s my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
MARIA SHARAPOVAMy shoulder’s not where I want it to be, but I’m doing a good job of monitoring it.
MARIA SHARAPOVAA great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
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 SHARAPOVAIt’ll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But I’ll get my revenge.
MARIA SHARAPOVAAs an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhenever 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAThere are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can’t miss a ball.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it’s never going to be the same.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI want my tennis to speak for everything.
MARIA SHARAPOVA