Quotes By Maria Sharapova

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

You control your own wins and losses.

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.

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.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

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

I go to yoga classes and work on my core.

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

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

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

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

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.

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

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I look forward to the challenges.

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.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

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

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

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

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.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

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

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.

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

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

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.

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

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.