Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

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.

Once you know what you want in life...Like a magnet you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.

There should always be an end game, or else all you are doing is practicing for an opportunity for which you have no idea of what it is or what it will even look like.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

The Dance

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have