Maria Sharapova In Her Own Words
By Alix Ramsay

Sometimes, when I’m sitting at home, I look back at what I was doing two years ago. It just feels amazing, it really does. When I sit down at the end of the day and go through a magazine with me in it, and I’m with my friends and family, people who have been with me through everything, it’s like: we’re still doing the same thing. We’re still together and we are still doing the things that we were two years ago but so much has happened.

I always laugh with my friend because everything has happened so fast. A year ago we would go shopping and we would be like ‘oh, my God, I want that, I want that, I want that for my birthday’ but now, when we go shopping, I’m like: ‘I want that and I’m going to buy that now.’ And my friend is like: ‘damn.’ Now she doesn’t even know what to get me for my birthday. She’s like: ‘you have everything now.’ I’m like: ‘well, you know...’

Shoes are my biggest weakness. I’ve got so many pairs. I’ve got like 30 really, really nice pairs probably. Really nice, designer shoes. You see, I figure that my foot is not going to grow anymore so if I go bankrupt, I still have my shoes. We are buying a new house and I’m going to have like a nice walk-in closet where I can actually store my shoes. I need to see them. I have to look at them to get the feeling of creativity. I can’t just put them in a box.

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