Maria Sharapova Quotes

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

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.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.

Well, fans always root for the underdog.

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.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

I never think about the numbers. I've never played tennis for the money, because as long as I enjoy it, and I can achieve anything, then the money will come. I know that things will start coming up, many more people will want to start getting involved. But I just want to keep my head cool, and I want to leave (business) to the people who take care of business. I just go out and I just play tennis.

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.

I go to yoga classes and work on my core.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

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.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

I owe a lot to my parents.

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

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.

I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

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.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

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.

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.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

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.

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.

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.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

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.

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.

I don't do heavy weights at all.

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.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day.

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.

I love to collect modern art.