A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

She opened her eyes. "Is this real?""Very real." I brushed the soaked strands off her cheek, wondering if I was lying or not and if I should care if I was. "Angel, let me kiss you.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Dreams are maps to the future.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

I think it's important to come from a humble place.