My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

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.

God sees and knows you

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.