Maria Sharapova
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.Collection: Strength
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.Collection: Fathers
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.Collection: Good
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Travel
When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Travel
I help design my own tennis clothes.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Design
You control your own wins and losses.
I'd like to have a family.
I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.
When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
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 can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
I don't do heavy weights at all.
I owe a lot to my parents.
There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.
I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
I look forward to the challenges.
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.
No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
Well, fans always root for the underdog.
I love to collect modern art.
I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
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'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
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 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.
Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.
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.
As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.
The forehands or backhands don't mean much after three hours.
The more matches I play, the more confident I get.
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.
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.
I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.
I have a Russian heart.
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.
I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.
I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.