You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
I don't care about losses anymore.
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.
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
I hate competition.
I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
I'm not fighting with myself.
I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
