After 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 SHARAPOVAIf everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing…I could talk.
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My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
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I help design my own tennis clothes.
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I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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It’s strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
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I can’t please everyone. That’s not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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I 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.
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I 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.
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I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
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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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I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
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I’d probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we’d all see who really uses them and who doesn’t.
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If 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.
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I’m focused on going out every day and doing my best.
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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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