Well, fans always root for the underdog.
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
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I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
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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 definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.
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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 family and I built my whole career from scratch.
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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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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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I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
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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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You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it’s been a good ride so far, but it’s not over yet.
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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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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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