All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

Everything is possible in this life.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

We live because of the dreams.

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

A life with a positive purpose is absolutely priceless.

You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.