When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
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.
No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
Well, fans always root for the underdog.
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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 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.
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.
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.
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.
I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
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.
I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
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 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.
Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.
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.
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
I have a Russian heart.
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
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.
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
I owe a lot to my parents.
I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.
I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.
When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
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.
I'd like to have a family.
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.
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.
Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
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.
Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
The more matches I play, the more confident I get.
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.
I want my tennis to speak for everything.
I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.
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.
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 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.
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.
