If I didn't have [a] wife, maybe I can say, 'Yeah, I'm disappointed I'm not maybe good looking.' ... I don't know about China, but in Russia, I still look good.

You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

She's my wife, not my girlfriend. Maybe for her it is better. For me, she's still the same girl, just my wife

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

I have unbelievable support among Republicans.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.