Maria Sharapova Quotes

I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

I do not just play for money.

People all the time try to take my outside interests and make them a negative. My life has always been like that and it always will be like that. I don't think it necessarily means that while I'm concentrating on tennis I can't put 100% into it. If I didn't have 100 different interests, I probably wouldn't be as good a player.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

Work isn't really work for me.

I will work as hard as I do because I love it.

Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.