I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

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.

I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love had a thousand shapes.

Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.