The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Maria Sharapova reads as The Pioneer because her arc demanded she forge new ground twice. First came one of the most decorated careers in tennis, built on relentless competitive tenacity. Then, after a doping ban, came the harder task of rebuilding her identity entirely, launching Sugarpova and proving herself a credible entrepreneur before many believed she could.
“Who would ever do that? But you know what? Two and a half years ago, I had a meeting with an agent and I sat down and she came into the meeting talking to me about a potential memoir. And it was so far. It was just an idea that she had. It was not really even a vision or a plan. She just wanted to talk to me about it.”
“Exact thing, and you have the same technique, but it goes in. And one day you're cursing at yourself and you're upset, and the next day you think you just want a grand slam. It's a very thin line. There's no doubt about it. But I do, I think there's a lot of attitude that needs to calm down.”
“And I knew and I thought of these people, I thought of my father, and I thought of the person that he would give the time to, that he would open up to, that he would share with That I think was one of the biggest reasons that I, I mean, he and my father spent over a week together just talking and talking and it wasn't even life, life talk…”
“I don't know if I'm good at, but I don't know if I'd necessarily do a TED talk on it, but I have this passion for architecture. And yeah, I think I've always said that if I wasn't a tennis player, I would love to be an architect.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Maria Sharapova”
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