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.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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I love to collect modern art.
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It’ll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But I’ll get my revenge.
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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 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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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’d like to have a family.
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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 owe a lot to my parents.
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Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I’d be on the front page of the paper.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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I think it’s so cool to be tall. Even when I’m not wearing heels people tell me I’m tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
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My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn’t necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.
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It’s nice to be one of the most beautiful people.
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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
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