I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't.

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 had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.

There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.

Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

Through personal prayer, through family prayer, by trusting in God with faith, nothing wavering, we can call down to our rescue His mighty power.