Maria Sharapova Quotes

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

  Maria Sharapova

• The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

  Maria Sharapova

• The forehands or backhands don’t mean much after three hours.

  Maria Sharapova

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

  Maria Sharapova

• 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.

  Maria Sharapova

• Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan’s neck – so weak.

  Maria Sharapova

• Since I’m constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

  Maria Sharapova

• Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It’s a way to communicate oneself.

  Maria Sharapova

• Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, ‘Well, she’s living in the United States, but she’s Russian.’

  Maria Sharapova

• No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

  Maria Sharapova

• 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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• 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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• My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

  Maria Sharapova

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

  Maria Sharapova

• 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

• 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.

  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

• 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.

  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

• 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 the time.

  Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova (101)

Birth:	19th April, 1987
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Maria Sharapova was born on 19 April 1987 in Nyagan, Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, then within the Soviet Union. Her parents, Yuri and Elena, are from Gomel, Belarus, also then within the Soviet Union. Concerned about the regional effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, they left their homeland shortly before Sharapova was born, moving within the Soviet Union from Gomel to Nyagan.

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