We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.