272 ordspråk av Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
When I'm down or when it's close in a match, I feel like I am still in it. Mentally I'm still really, really tough.
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When it's that hot, just mentally you've got to be so tough.
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When the matches get tougher and you're pushed more, automatically, the level of your game increases.
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When the points started getting longer and longer, I felt that she had the advantage.
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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.
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Who knows? Maybe I'll say it again sometime.
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Without playing great, without having a forehand or a serve, you win, ... The bad thing is I can't really hit a big serve and you feel like crap.
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Without playing great, without having a forehand or a serve, you win. The bad thing is I can't really hit a big serve and you feel like crap.
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Women's tennis is at such a high level now that any of the top 10 or 20 players could give me a tough match. Martina is on her comeback and no doubt will reach the top again but I don't have a specific rival here.
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Women's tennis players are getting as many sponsors and media coverage as men, and our TV ratings at the Grand Slams are pretty much equal to and often better than the men, so I don't understand the rationale for paying the men more than us.
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Wow! It's absolutely amazing, I can't believe I pulled this match out today,
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Yeah, ... I kind of gave it all I had in the tiebreaker. Then in the third set, I just kind of ran out of gas, basically.
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You can be playing great tennis the past week, you come out and no matter how good you might have been playing, the level of tennis goes down the drain simply because of the wind.
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You don't want to pull out because it's a Grand Slam, but it's hard when people expect you to win.
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You never know what to expect in the first round. I did enough to win and I'm pretty satisfied.
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