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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAIt’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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I’m giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It’s fantastic.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI can’t please everyone. That’s not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI 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 SHARAPOVAWhen I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner – and how that winner might be me.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it’s never going to be the same.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.
MARIA SHARAPOVAWhen 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.
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 help design my own tennis clothes.
MARIA SHARAPOVAAfter 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 SHARAPOVAI 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.
MARIA SHARAPOVANo matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
MARIA SHARAPOVAIt’ll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But I’ll get my revenge.
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