Top 140 Maria Sharapova Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it’s great material, then you feel confident in it.”

— Maria Sharapova

102. “My shoulder’s not where I want it to be, but I’m doing a good job of monitoring it.”

— Maria Sharapova

103. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

104. “It’s nice to be one of the most beautiful people.”

— Maria Sharapova

105. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

106. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

107. “My family and I built my whole career from scratch.”

— Maria Sharapova

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

— Maria Sharapova

109. “I love to eat, and if I could, I’d eat every second of my life.”

— Maria Sharapova

110. “I want my tennis to speak for everything.”

— Maria Sharapova

111. “I’m focused on going out every day and doing my best.”

— Maria Sharapova

112. “Since I’m constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.”

— Maria Sharapova

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

— Maria Sharapova

114. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

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

— Maria Sharapova

116. “If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better – that is the true reward.”

— Maria Sharapova

117. “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.”

— Maria Sharapova

118. “I never really had an idol.”

— Maria Sharapova

119. “I learned there’s a big difference between juniors and the pros.”

— Maria Sharapova

120. “I’d probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we’d all see who really uses them and who doesn’t.”

— Maria Sharapova

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

— Maria Sharapova

122. “There’s not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.”

— Maria Sharapova

123. “I’ve always believed that you have to train harder than you play. That’s how you win – so that the match, when it comes, comes as a kind of break. And you train, in this world, not for one match or for one tournament or for one season, but for an entire carreer, which will continue until they make you leave the last court on the final day.”

— Maria Sharapova

124. “Every loss teaches you something. The quicker you learn from the losses, then forget about the actual losing, the better off you will be. And do it fast!”

— Maria Sharapova

125. “You can’t control what people say about you and what they think about you. You can’t plan for bad luck. You can only work your hardest and do your best and tell the truth. In the end, it’s the effort that matters. The rest is beyond your control.”

— Maria Sharapova

126. “I don’t worry about what my opponent is doing.”

— Maria Sharapova

127. “I wanted to prove myself again and again and again. I wanted to beat them all. I was eighteen years old, the reigning Wimbledon champ, with nothing but time in front of me.”

— Maria Sharapova

128. “What sets the great players apart from the good players? The good players win when everything is working. The great players win even when nothing is working, even when the game is ugly; that is, when they are not great.”

— Maria Sharapova

129. “If you don’t know where you come from, you don’t know who you are.”

— Maria Sharapova

130. “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

131. “At the beginning, it’s all you have: a simple forehand, a simple backhand. It’s all you have at the end, too.”

— Maria Sharapova

132. “The player who keeps working five minute after everyone else has quit, who carries on late in the third set when the wind is blowing and the rain is coming down, wins.”

— Maria Sharapova

133. “A tennis player at twenty-nine can seem like the oldest person in the world. She’s been through an entire life span already, from youth to middle age to “get off the court, you’re too damn old.” A pro athetle really dies twice. At the end, like everyone else, but also at somewhere closer to the beginning, when she loses the only life she’s ever known.”

— Maria Sharapova

134. “There were hard times, but, looking back, I can see that some of those hard times were the best times. It formed the bedrock, the basis for everything that would follow. It made me lonely, but it also made me independent and strong.”

— Maria Sharapova

135. “To beat me, you had to break my serve, which did not break as easily as it had before. That’s when I became dangeroud. That’s when all those defeats turned into victories. At age fifteen, I began to win, and win consistently. My serve propelled me into a golden era, some of the best years of my career. But I would eventually pay a price for that serve and the tremendous pressure it put on my shoulder.”

— Maria Sharapova

136. “Being ranked number one is not enough – I had to prove that I deserved to be ranked number one. I had to win that second Grand Slam.”

— Maria Sharapova

137. “Nothing makes you want somthing more than having it and losing it. Until I got that top ranking, I hadn’t realized how much I’d wanted it. Now, more than anything, I wanted it back.”

— Maria Sharapova

138. “I don’t think it’s for them to have an opinion, because they don’t have the facts’.”

— Maria Sharapova

139. “I was in the same place, in the same world, but I was not the same player and not the same person. I saw it all again with new eyes and truly appreciated it for the first time. It gave people a new way to understand my story. It’s exciting when a kid wins on the biggest stage. That’s new life, that’s spring. But how much sweeter when a player who once had everything loses it al, and then, miraculously, gets it all back.”

— Maria Sharapova

140. “It can be hard to define home, especially when you have led a life as crazy and all over the place as mine, but you know it when you’re there. It’s where you feel most grounded, most understood, where you don’t have to explain. It’s where they get you. I am Russian. I have always known that, every minute of every day.”

— Maria Sharapova

141. “For being there for me during many challenging moments. For encouraging me when I was down. For pushing me, believing in me.”

— Maria Sharapova

142. “The need to win, is less about the trophies than about beating the other girls. I can get fancy and sweet about it, but at bottom my motivation is simple: I want to beat everyone. It’s not just the winning. It’s the not being beaten. Ribbons and trophies get old, but losing lasts. I hate it. Fear of defeat is what really drives many of us. I say “us” because I can’t possibly be the only person who feels this way.”

— Maria Sharapova

143. “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