My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

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.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.