When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI can’t please everyone. That’s not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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I love where I’m from. I don’t live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It’s what’s inside, it’s not what’s outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
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I help design my own tennis clothes.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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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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Sugar free? With the name Sugarpova I don’t think I will be doing anything sugar free very soon.
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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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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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Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.
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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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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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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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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it’s never going to be the same.
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I’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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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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