If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

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.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

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.