I 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 have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova.
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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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Whenever 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.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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That’s why we have journalists, for stats.
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You control your own wins and losses.
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When 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.
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I’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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I have a Russian heart.
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I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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When I walk through that gate to the court, that’s my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
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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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Sugar free? With the name Sugarpova I don’t think I will be doing anything sugar free very soon.
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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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The more matches I play, the more confident I get.
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