Those are real hard fans. There are a lot of them here. Some are a little bit crazy with their drinking their beers every once in a while. But I love it.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

I have a Russian heart.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.