If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don’t have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
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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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There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
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It’s nice to be one of the most beautiful people.
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I help design my own tennis clothes.
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I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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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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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’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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I 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.
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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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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’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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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 definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.
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