"No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with." ― Maria Sharapova Topic(s): Poetry More From Maria Sharapova "I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience." "When you travel so many weeks a year, it’s always nice to have a home-cooked meal." "To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I’m doing amazing projects that, if I didn’t have time off, I wouldn’t be able to focus on." More In Poetry "But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry."― Chinua Achebe "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."― Emily Dickinson "But I don’t think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events."― Diane Wakoski