It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

Everything is possible in this life.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

We live because of the dreams.

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Good leaders are intelligent

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.