but in real life. it's tennis superstar maria sharapova when did you know you were good i never think that i'm good i think that i can always be better do you form friendships in the locker room i don't and that's how to say it either plus as a as a candy company and i started. that's product placement that's all ahead on larry king now. welcome to larry king now our special guest maria sharapova the global tennis star she has four grand slam championships one of each major and has held the number one

ranking in women's professional tennis for twenty one weeks she's the highest paid female athlete in the world a great pleasure meeting you you're taller than my wife he used to be that are you always tall i don't go into seventeen eighteen like i had a major growth spurt then so we're not easing born in siberia i was born in siberia did you start playing tennis and so i didn't i didn't i didn't i was a chance not. to get up were just start to play when i was two we moved down to the south and moved to sochi a resort town where we happen to be having the winter olympics next year which is quite exciting so i was four years old and my father was a fan and that's how i got into it no one in my family really was a flooded or played much sports are although my father thinks he's a professional athlete you know that would you take to it right away i did i would i love the competitiveness of the sport from. beginning i really that is what drew

me to the sport because no one no one around me really knew the sport so well in tennis back then was not so popular you know unlike now where it's in every city every center so many coaches know vailable where's back then you don't have much at all to display as one pedo out well and you don't have you don't have the infrastructure you don't have the type of facilities the type of coaching that can get you to the next level at least not in the town where i was from you had to drop out of the u.s. open and i did because of a shoulder injury. hard it's tough it's tough being a very competitive athlete and not being able to see your name in the draw of your food you need you could play and you did your trip so you got to say don't the doctors it's i know i've had many opinions and. you know when when you're at a certain level and you've been there and you don't know you know what your body can do you know you have a certain pain threshold but i've been playing with for

a while and at that point it was just as a matter of you need to get better so when you don't play do you watch i watched a little bit of the final because i had the opportunity i had time i've been in new york i stayed in new york which is quite rare because they usually head of the town once i'm done in the tournament or if i'm not playing but i made it fun it was new york fashion week i did a few things that portion was a nice opportunity for me to do things with my friends that i actually don't get to do or just a goose to remit and she's an incredible and incredible athlete to be able to win that many grand slams at the stage of their careers would you rank girl time. she's up there that's for sure when you have a rival like that are those matches more intense absolutely so you do rise differently becoming on the apollo yeah i think there's there's definitely something different in the air when you walk out on the court against definitely do

you play to bear we're especially big a big sports fan do you play men took over you play where you had the mental part to play bare weakness perceived weakness or your strength. it's tough to say because i wish you know part of me always wish that no one had strengths and weaknesses that's when i play the best as when i don't i don't have to think too much about it when you go out on the court and you play by instinct and you do you know you trust in the work that you put in before that because ultimately when you go out there and it's what is it six on the third and you're down to the tiebreaker in the third set you're not really thinking i'm going to go to the back end or to the forehand it's your mind you know taking over so the medal a big part of the game absolutely i think that's one me many more matches than anything else in my career out for your opponent you know i'm just a tougher than them. is you stay angry you then replay or not i'm not in

england some people are i agree with a great you may have a saucy get mad at the phrase or it i have i have no reason in being. beyond fortunate to do what i do but yet i'm so competitive and that's what drives me and i hate to lose so if that's what you know you calling her i call that competitive. eating to losers hating others no i don't want to do this i don't know if you do have a grudge thing was true even for a while mario though that overplayed i think so a lot of things and press are overplayed i'm sure you know about that heard it you know what about are you old greegor are you getting married. again now that i know you know i'm not beating him i am dating him is he a good player he is a good player how did you meet i've known him for many years on the tour. so you know there's no truth to rumors that you're getting engaged. when you're

approaching a match you know you're going to play well before the first serve i don't. as the view of the sport is you never know i sometimes. go into tournaments and i feel quite honestly so bad about the way i'm playing about i'm not a good player in practice so i play practice matches with other girls or other boys and and i don't do well at all and i've learned to accept that because i know that things change once the tournaments starts there just something clicks and something changes and then you have times where you feel exceptional and you feel like you're on top of the world and you go into a match and things just don't work out it's not your day your feet are heavy you're not moving the things going in you're making errors that you shouldn't be making so it all every day is a different day and that's why i say that's what excites me about every every chance i return and i've done it for so many years but when you feel that way that's what keeps you going oh you describe the strength of your game. a lot of the

strength is in my mind i have i grew up you know not being the strongest girl or having all the shots in the game all the different varieties but i won i won so many matches in my career and gotten to the place where i am. because of my mom and like chess just being you know smart of also i mean there's you don't just won a match because you're you're good you surround yourself with people that help you so much to get to where you are today it's really it's a team effort and i you know you accomplish something where you always think back to five years ten years ago of those little moments that helped you get to this certain point do you think friendships in the locker room i don't and that's how to say it either or not. because it's such a competitive sport so individual it's it's tough for me to imagine being friendly

and having a friend should be with someone and then next day going out on the court and trying to beat them i don't think that's fair so obvious it was a great pitcher years ago he disliked the of the team he didn't like all-star games where you have a plea if you. if you feel it would do you dislike the other player. i don't dislike i i always feel like. everyone is in their own little world everyone has just because we're were all tennis players doesn't mean we all have the same interest doesn't mean we're friends you know and we certainly don't play for the same team so that's a bit different it's an individual's right to individual sport is it as you pulled grand slams you know that tiger woods would rather win the major than win or bid that's where board behind the winning three tournaments how do you prove to the

majors at this point in my career that that stuff i've done for services is doing well at the majors because of the fortune to win a lot of tournaments around the world and when i've been professional since i was quite young so i've been there and done that and and certainly the majors are at that high stage that you always want to compete the best at in golf the major major i guess is the basters what's the major major do you. i don't know much about golf now. we're moving i think there's something really there's something really special it goes back to the tradition of the game of tennis in general i just always think of women playing with their long wait skirts up to the knee in their polo shirts and button all the way to the top and they're what in tennis racket and it just seems elegant to me and when i think of that i think of one woman so that to me is you have a lot of room a big old tennis players in the past i don't often but i have yes that we jean king

about happy birthday you guess there was a group with your family sacrificed a great deal for you through a lot to get through those really. well i started when i started playing tennis i was only four in the age of six i happened to we took a flight to moscow where martina navratilova was was holding a tennis exhibition for many cancers hundreds and hundreds of kids and and my my coach at the. time and search and my father thought it be next trip to go down there and be part of this camp and and i remember being on the court and you're surrounded by so many kids you don't think you'd ever be noticed and i remember martina put in my father's side and saying that she thinks i have something special and that we should do something about it and at that time as i as i said tennis was so far from being popular in russia that you knew you didn't have anything really to develop it unlike now and that's that's the reason why we moved to united states

seven years old and i was my father because my mom couldn't get a visa for the first two years so i didn't see her but. it was a huge sacrifice for our family because at the end of the day they had a normal life a simple life those nothing there they weren't wealthy they weren't poor. but they could have stayed and been have been been doing the things that they were doing and you always appreciate that oh is i love my parents when did you know you were good i never thank. you and that i don't would believe that i think that i can always be better because there needs to be something inside of your mind inside of you that that keeps you going to keep sue for ashton when you do something every single day you need to be inspired and if you think that you get to be true than what was there a marriage that was there were early career. i look at me. i mean i

many many of my younger junior days i practiced in florida an academy there and and break into florida where i still have a home and i remember you know that the high end clients the sponsors academy would come down once or twice during the year and and the coaches would hold the clinics of their you know the juniors that they wanted to i guess show off in a way and great place and it is a great place and i i was i was always part of those little you know show off campus and i don't under i never really understood because it was you know men coming in with their suits and ties and there i was a ten year old girl and i didn't quite understand why i deserved to be on that court. in front of and and i think until i never really understood until i won wimbledon because. at that point you actually think that maybe i deserve i deserve the credit now on one side she's a louis when you want to well i was seventeen i probably got more really gives me

a little. state to. give them. a. very hard to. get her back we got her right there.

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we're back with maria sharapova we're going to get into a little by the way how did the grunt start. from the very beginning from when i was young you can't explain it. what this is what how did we go first you're going to go to this you're going to grow up i can do and i don't have i got no i don't you have to have opinion oh i have to have to do the real thing it's loud oh yeah. how do you develop this we do build a bridge you should go both sugar poses a candy company that i started that i own i launched last year in new york city right before the u.s. open and so one year anniversary it's gone so many great different directions i have always had a sweet tooth i have had a passion for sweets i grew up in russia not knowing what a gummy bear was and when i moved to united states i mean i was so i was ecstatic

because i'd never seen the texture or flavor of gummy candies before and i remember thinking this would be so so nice to take back to my friends and the name sugar pobre came about about three years ago and then i put it together with gummies and took two years to create and here we are so in the gumballs have been i've been a fan favorite so far in terms of the time has come vasya. what about the empty sugar feeling in the world people who say sugar is bad for you and then of the day will like will x. or will of our so we can we all have a very deep and we want to be and i also for me it's really important to have a healthy lifestyle and i'm an athlete that's at the end of the day that's what i do and i know what's good and i know it's bad but i also know that when i come back home i want that little treat and i deserve it and i'm sure that others feel the same how did you think forbes listed you as the richest female athlete and do you

mind that for you i don't think they were i don't think about that i don't even know because i certainly don't have access to other athletes bank accounts and i'm sure forbes doesn't either. of them is that a broadest. these are the things that you have no control over and you don't even think about it and when we were creating this i never i mean this started as a i like to say a mom and pop type because they're really in reality is only three people working for this and it's a whole in the business. it's all that it's sold on sugar polka dot com we actually just we for one year anniversary we just started selling accessories or henry bundles as well so i just i wanted to take it in different directions i want it it's still fun and young and at the end of the day it's still can be so we did a little earring that or the logo has been really popular so we did that's for it not for you but for your wife and the t. shirts. so one of the one we did when we created the logo we

always love lip logos and shapes and from the big chairs that are shaped and lips and. and that's how the logo came about and it was really popular when we launched the handy little make up. on all the candy so. you know thank you gift is it didn't go with yes absolutely although we open want to tease i'm going to eat one but easy corky this is my personal favorite it's quirky i was part of me where's the can be made in spain i was once going to great factory i was personally there making sure everything oh. it's product placement. you try not to like it. but. you know what's the next question because you're just going to keep eating it you know you really get involved in tasting it everything from everything that's

written on the package to the actual shapes to the flavors this is take away from your athletic i enjoy there's so much. i have fun doing and i think that's one of the reasons i've been really successful at the things that i do is i come off the court and i think well i did my job i practiced i gave the effort and when i woke up in the morning that's all i wanted to do i certainly wasn't thinking about sporty pink. and then i got off court and you know five six hours in your hotel room after you're practicing and you're thinking you're thinking of things you're keeping your mind busy and and that's why i love it having more let's keep eating you know these are you going to remember it was good let's. all go on to these really good stranger i don't gain weight oh oh i do i just i work out extra you know do you work out a lot. all right i don't know if

a lot is the right word but always you like having success is such a young age. i don't know their way so i. was i was so happy with what i achieved on the court that i. would wimbledon. i look at i look i didn't think i was crazy at the time but i look back at it now as a twenty six year old and i think especially now thinking you know when you're watching when i watch t.v. and someone that's twenty or twenty one is playing and and they're saying this is the youngster that's coming up and i think back to when i was seventeen of think wow that was those an infant i mean that's really young so all of you parents reacted to this they've been the best supporters because they know my parents the best the best gift that they gave me was that they were always realistic they lived in an inner real world they understood that this could all fail at any moment any time and in your career and they were never afraid of that the most as you why did

you board was would you be caught. it was just not the right not the right fit wrong timing with my injury with everything going on is just not the right time for you need a coach a lot of people ask. why they need a coach i think you know everyone thinks we know it all but we really don't there's so many things that you see when you're away from it from a perspectives and the things that you see sometimes i get off the court and i think i played a great match i think i did so many things well i listen to what my coach said and then you come off the court and they're giving you a dirty look in the makes you think twice because they saw things from a different a completely different that you need that you have eleven million facebook fans right i think i guess we have some social media questions for you vivek gupta on facebook wants to know are you interested in acting. that takes a lot of time i i don't know if i'm good at it i'm not good i remembering

a lot of lines if i have a problem turn from a richer joshua jade third team via twitter what inspired you to play tennis. competitiveness and then when i move to united states i i realize that there's a whole nother world to explore there are so many countries and cultures and and people to me and that's really inspiring you go back to russia i did. at armidale shah ninety five on twitter what will you do when you leave tennis oh i don't want to think about that because i i still believe that so many more years ahead of me and only twenty six and you've got can be more businesses you do other things i would love to i'm certainly not stopping no more really a twitter wants to know do you plan to play the season ending championships in is them bowl that's my goal that i really want to finish with that tournaments this year but i also want to heal my shoulder so orderly say about the healing it's

going to take as much time as it needs persuade us is is a bit tricky because there's not much you can do for it except do it till it gets better which is quite i'm not a patient person that makes it extremely difficult on facebook jeremiah garcia says aside from being a top tennis player what's your greatest achievement. oh giving back. i formed a charity and i work with united nations noble affected areas and i have done that for for a while because both of my parents were actually from belarus and in one thousand eighty seven and one thousand nine hundred seven when winter noble struck they there my mother was pregnant with me and we moved to russia and that's the reason i was born in russia so it's pretty it's a pretty close subject to my heart and i feel like there that something quite important and it happened to your noble i've been back to bowlers and obviously been back to the north north of russian parts where where that happen. it can be

cheat on twitter clients you know what's your favorite cheese. favorite cheese either i go choose or sheep milk cheese joe david freely on facebook what do you do for fun. oh i do a lot of things you could design was your number one fun things. like i love snow. and the number two then you see you're reading flirty and so you're getting to the wrong stuff oh you were reading that. ok maria. you know what i do i am never home so when i am home i actually enjoy being done master can you cook i like to i'm no good but i like to try facebook follow even tweet even while you there switch your favorite draw even one even white one will then

when one trophy out and serene it was the toughest person to play on the tour right now. well as a ranker i know is right number two behind serino and she's she's had a great year as well so she's always tough to play against a gay couple quick questions favre gave you only knew remember the first boy you kissed. i do always his name i won't say what i will we do this because this is not a private conversation when the nine years old could have been evil or. oh i've been here ever since their best match you ever played was their best match best match ever played one of the finest match i ever played was one i lost against justin and there's two thousand and. six championships are seven year in championships and madrid was a good three and a half hour battle but looking back that was the from spare part of three we have

our thanks and even though you lost yes it was fun because a few months after that i beat her best china open. is there a song you can stop listening to. anything but i love a city with the best thing in this city with a new york city name and favorite place to be when you're not on the tennis court. and you were by the beach italy because to the most dependable tennis stroke dependable. oh i love the swinging belly first car. first car that i purchased. the top one. there were car purchase but i drive a porsche nine eleven zero a porsche nine over their biggest regret. i don't have any favorite movie something's gotta give with jack nicholson those great movie i can watch that over

and over again but i love it. do you how do you prepare for a tournament by the way a lot of hours on the court. you know such as you would get getting to going to the tournament and playing the tournaments actually that the easy part i love getting to have to do anything practice an hour to get home we have all the time in the world when your shoulders ok do you play every day i do six days a week probably six days a week yeah practice play something everything thank you maria thank you thank you for these wonderful sugar yes skippy bendel or anywhere else without college sugar bowl the sugar bowl good doc tom now thanks to my guest maria and by the way short of to go but a bad deal for sure the public can be in select stores now or go to google poll the dot com for more information or to see her back on the tennis court soon remember you can find me on twitter at kings things see you next time this is great stuff

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