Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

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.

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.

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace, ” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

Sabotage is like, so satisfying.