Top 140 Maria Sharapova Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

52. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I help design my own tennis clothes.”

— Maria Sharapova

56. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

57. “Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I’d be on the front page of the paper.”

— Maria Sharapova

58. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

59. “It’s pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that’s just the way it is.”

— Maria Sharapova

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

— Maria Sharapova

61. “My next goal is to be number one in the world.”

— Maria Sharapova

62. “I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.”

— Maria Sharapova

63. “Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it’s important to be pretty levelheaded.”

— Maria Sharapova

64. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

65. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

66. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

67. “I don’t spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That’s my least favourite place in the world.”

— Maria Sharapova

68. “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

69. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

70. “I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.”

— Maria Sharapova

71. “I’d like to have a family.”

— Maria Sharapova

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

— Maria Sharapova

73. “To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I’m doing amazing projects that, if I didn’t have time off, I wouldn’t be able to focus on.”

— Maria Sharapova

74. “I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She’s an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.”

— Maria Sharapova

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Maria Sharapova

78. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

79. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

80. “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

81. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

82. “I’m just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don’t want to lose.”

— Maria Sharapova

83. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

84. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

85. “I’m not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!”

— Maria Sharapova

86. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

87. “As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.”

— Maria Sharapova

88. “When you travel so many weeks a year, it’s always nice to have a home-cooked meal.”

— Maria Sharapova

89. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

90. “When you’re going through tough moments, you never know when you’re going to have good moments.”

— Maria Sharapova

91. “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

92. “I love to collect modern art.”

— Maria Sharapova

93. “I don’t get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.”

— Maria Sharapova

94. “I love where I’m from. I don’t live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It’s what’s inside, it’s not what’s outside that determines the culture and the feeling.”

— Maria Sharapova

95. “The more matches I play, the more confident I get.”

— Maria Sharapova

96. “I’d love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.”

— Maria Sharapova

97. “I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I’m in America I feel Russian.”

— Maria Sharapova

98. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

99. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

100. “That’s why we have journalists, for stats.”

— Maria Sharapova