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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Pasta
Special
Trying
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Birthday
Smile
Age
Eating
Faster
Lines
Pasta
Young Age
Be The First
Bowl
Competitive
First One
Wanting
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I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing...I could talk.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Months
Next
Should
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Parent
Sleep
Trying
Conversations
Me Parents Better
Survive
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Confidence
Best
Good
Feel Good
Important
Worry
Good Always Your
Best Always Your
Will
Best Good Your
Feel
Best Good Look
About
Best Good Always
Very
Anything
Always
Perform
You
Without
Look
Best Good Feel Good
Wearing
Worrying
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I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Girl
Accessories
Night
Shoes
Bag
Change Things
Outfit
Pair
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Accomplish
Believe
Example
Helping Others
Teens
Tennis
Years
Helps
Normally
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When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Philosophy
Thinking
Winning
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Travel
Fashion
Inspire
Love Good Women
Fashions
Something Good
Speaking
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Carpet
Interviews
Magazines
Red
Red Carpet
Strange
Tvs
Me Doing Person
Me Doing See
Pictures
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Complement
Heels
People
Rooms
Thinking
Cool Good Always
Cool Good Me
Good Thing
Wearing
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Hard Work
Mean
Nervous
Tennis
Event
Speaking
Tournament
Work Hard
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Downtown
Retirement
Would Be
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When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Kids
Commitment
Giving
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Family
Circumstances
Culture
Feelings
Determines
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Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Moving
Russia
Years
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Competition
Despite
Player
Stronger
Tennis
Tennis Player
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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 / Tennis Player
Being Myself
My Own
Player
Schedules
Thinking
Tournaments
Oh
Follow
Schedule
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My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Dresses
Style
Unique
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Travel
Handbags
Jeans
Pieces
Shoes
Shorts
Stylish
Versatile
Bag
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Ocean
Beach
Dollars
Having A Good Time
Mean
Spending
Love Time Good
Good Time
Hundreds
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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 / Tennis Player
Jobs
Looks
Pace
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Kids
Country
Support
Minds
Showing
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After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Court
Fun
Glamorous
Priorities
Tennis
Always Me Fun
Me Fun Way
Sudden
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In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Athlete
Player
Years
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Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness...they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Important
Tennis
Winning
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Fall
Injured
Minutes
Tennis
Years
Arm
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Being Positive
Games
Way
Bright
Realise
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When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it's those moments that you feel you've trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Hard Work
Losing
Lucky
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That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Dream
Girl
Moon
Winning
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Design
Great Idea
Ideas
Notes
People
Love Great Me
Blog
Doodle
Project
Florist
Inspires
Visit
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Eating
Long
Long Time
Losing
Meals
Russia
Singing
Talking
Track
Time Family Always
Miss
Family Time Me
Lasted
Reminds
Very Long Time
Whenever
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Girl
Home
Afternoon
Black
Breakfast
Dinner
Jam
Lunch
Nice
Tea
Training
Type
Background
English
Favorite
Cup
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Physically, I have to get a lot better, ... I have to play these three setters and the points are going to go on and on. This is not something that is going to happen overnight. I am only 18 and this is going to take time. My body is still growing and I'm still adjusting to my own body.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Goes On
Play
Three
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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.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Jobs
Fashion
Thinking
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Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Girl
Athlete
Thinking
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I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Hard Work
Play
Thinking
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People always ask about young people like me being forced into things. I play tennis because I love it. I think Russians might be tougher than other people. When I arrived in America I was young, but I already knew what I wanted. I think that when you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Play
Thinking
Winning
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I never think about the numbers. I've never played tennis for the money, because as long as I enjoy it, and I can achieve anything, then the money will come. I know that things will start coming up, many more people will want to start getting involved. But I just want to keep my head cool, and I want to leave (business) to the people who take care of business. I just go out and I just play tennis.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Numbers
Play
Thinking
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I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.
Maria Sharapova / Tennis Player
Morning
Sports
Careers
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