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If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

Maria Sharapova

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Maria Sharapova
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: April 19
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Maria Yuryevna Sharapova
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I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.
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I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils down, take your grunt-o-meters down, the fashion police, put everything away and just watch the match, you know, from just the fans' perspective. I seriously think that the quality of the match today was great.
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I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
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It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.
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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.
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I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
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I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.
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I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.
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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.
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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.
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Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
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I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.
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We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.
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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.
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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.
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