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Sania Mirza Quotes

I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India.

– Sania Mirza

I love salon days to pamper myself, do my nails.

– Sania Mirza

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

– Sania Mirza

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that’s what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

– Sania Mirza

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

– Sania Mirza

I don’t think I’m old enough or experienced enough to give anyone any guidance. All I would like say is that as long as you’re having fun, I think you’re doing the right thing.

– Sania Mirza

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don’t want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That’s the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don’t want to be one and don’t care. But everyone wants to.

– Sania Mirza

I prefer eating to cooking.

– Sania Mirza

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

– Sania Mirza

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

– Sania Mirza

As you grow older, it’s harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don’t know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

– Sania Mirza

For some reason, every time I peak in my career, I injure myself. So, I’m constantly on the comeback trail.

– Sania Mirza

We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don’t understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson.

– Sania Mirza

Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months.

– Sania Mirza

I’m not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

– Sania Mirza

One win, and you’re on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you’re back to reality.

– Sania Mirza

I’m not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.

– Sania Mirza

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

– Sania Mirza

One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I’m participating in these events. That’s enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments.

– Sania Mirza

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don’t take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It’s just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

– Sania Mirza

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but that’s just, I think if you don’t have attitude, it comes only with self confidence. So if you don’t have self confidence, you won’t have attitude, and I think there’s a difference when you have attitude and when you have arrogance.

– Sania Mirza

I love any kind of food. I don’t have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.

– Sania Mirza

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that’s why I’m more prone to injuries. That’s why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind.

– Sania Mirza

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

– Sania Mirza

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions – we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.

– Sania Mirza

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

– Sania Mirza