There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

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.

Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!