Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it’s important to be pretty levelheaded.
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.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
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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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It’s pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that’s just the way it is.
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When you’re going through tough moments, you never know when you’re going to have good moments.
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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 you’re able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that’s worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
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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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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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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 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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It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
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That’s why we have journalists, for stats.
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No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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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 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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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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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 heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
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When 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.
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Since I’m constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.
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I have a Russian heart.
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Within a few years the name ‘Maria Sharapova’ will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.
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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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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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