Top 100 Maria Sharapova Quotes
#2. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
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#4. I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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#5. I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.
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#7. I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.
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#11. I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.
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#12. 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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#14. I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
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#15. I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
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#20. When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
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#21. A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
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#22. 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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#23. Physically, I have to get a lot better, ... I have to play these three setters and the points are going to go on and on. This is not something that is going to happen overnight. I am only 18 and this is going to take time. My body is still growing and I'm still adjusting to my own body.
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#24. I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.
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#34. In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.
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#35. 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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#36. Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.
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#37. When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.
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#38. The forehands or backhands don't mean much after three hours.
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#39. I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
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#40. If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
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#41. Sugar free? With the name Sugarpova I don't think I will be doing anything sugar free very soon.
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#42. I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
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#45. No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
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#46. 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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#47. I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
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#48. When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
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#49. I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.
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#50. I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.
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#51. I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
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#52. I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
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#53. I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.
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#54. I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.
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#55. Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
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#57. I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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#58. Those are real hard fans. There are a lot of them here. Some are a little bit crazy with their drinking their beers every once in a while. But I love it.
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#59. My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
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#60. If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
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#61. I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.
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#62. When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.
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#63. I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
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#64. 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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#65. I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.
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#67. Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.
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#68. 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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#69. As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.
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#70. When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
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#71. I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.
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#72. I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.
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#76. That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.
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#77. Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
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#78. I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
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#79. I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
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#80. I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.
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#82. I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.
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#84. I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.
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#86. 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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#87. I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
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#93. 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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#94. Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
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#96. I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.
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#97. When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
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#98. It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . I'll get my revenge.
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#99. When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
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#100. I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.
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