I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
MARIA SHARAPOVAI’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
More Maria Sharapova Quotes
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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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When you travel so many weeks a year, it’s always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
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I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they’re wearing.
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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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When I walk through that gate to the court, that’s my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
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I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
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I love to collect modern art.
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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 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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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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My shoulder’s not where I want it to be, but I’m doing a good job of monitoring it.
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As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.
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If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
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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.
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