Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

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.

Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain

What have you done to qualify yourself for the miracles you are expecting.

There is no shame in being afraid.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

A dog doesn't want very much and is happy with that. A cat doesn't know what he wants and wants more of it.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.