Hefziba Sharapova Quotes

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

I want my tennis to speak for everything. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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

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

When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.' ~ Maria Sharapova

You control your own wins and losses. ~ Maria Sharapova

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights. ~ Maria Sharapova

I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova. ~ Casey Dellacqua

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

Everyone wants to be with you when you win Grand Slams, but who will stick close when the whole world turns on you? That's the question. ~ Maria Sharapova

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

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon ~ Maria Sharapova

My family and I built my whole career from scratch. ~ Maria Sharapova

I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often. ~ Maria Sharapova

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true. ~ Ashley Wagner

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

I hope people take away every kind of lesson, good and bad. This is a story about sacrifice, what you have to give up. But it's also just the story of a girl and her father and their crazy adventure. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova

That's why we have journalists, for stats. ~ Maria Sharapova

I look forward to the challenges. ~ Maria Sharapova

I had never thought of my influence on other people before, how all the work I was doing might pave the way for the next generations, as others had paved the way for me. But I saw it now, and it inspired me. it made me happy and it awed me and of course it made me really want to get back out there and play my game. It's interesting. Before all this happened I was thinking only about the finish line. How it would end, how I would make my exit. But I don't think about that anymore. Now I only think about playing. As long as I can. as hard as I can. Until they take down the nets. Until they burn my rackets. Until they stop me. And I want to see them try. ~ Maria Sharapova

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. ~ Maria Sharapova

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. ~ Maria Sharapova