Maria Sharapova Grand Quotations

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.

You don't want to pull out because it's a Grand Slam, but it's hard when people expect you to win.

It would be amazing if I could win here as it's the toughest Grand Slam to win, just because of the traffic.

It was very difficult, I've played Nadia in the last two Grand Slams in the quarter-finals as well and we've had such tough matches and I've been able to pull through so I'm very happy.

This is my favorite grand slam and I'd never imagined I'd be in the final so early. I don't know what to say, I'm going to cry right now.

I always say that my most successful year is last year, no matter how much more success having been made in my career, because I won my first grand slam title at the age of 17-year-old that I could not have imagined and also because it (Wimbledon) is my favorite championship and I just cherish it very much, so to be No. 1 at 18-year-old is just to be consistent.

But my most successful year was last year because I won my first grand slam at Wimbledon.

I think it's the toughest grand slam to win because of the traffic getting here and the busy city.