When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

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.

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.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect