I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

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.

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.