“Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!”
“My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.”
“I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.”
“I’m like an expensive menu… you can look but you can’t afford!”
“I’m like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can’t afford me.”
“I just play for fun.”
“The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.”
“I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.”
“I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.”
“The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.”
“At this year’s Open, I’ll have five boyfriends.”
“I think that tennis is a lady’s sport, so we should look out there like ladies.”
“I don’t know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.”
“You don’t think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can’t blame me for looking like this on purpose.”
“I’ve just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: ‘You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?’ I tell them I wouldn’t do it unless I understood and had an interest.”
“Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.”
“It’s that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.”
“I think it’s really important for me not to forget where I came from.”
“Like any young person, I do what I want.”
“There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn’t producing results no one would notice me.”
“It’s true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn’t be here if I couldn’t play tennis.”
“I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I’m getting.”
“A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.”
“When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.”
“God gives all to those, who get up early.”
“When I play, I feel like I’m in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I’m a tennis-player?”
“Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I’m feeling. When I’m happy inside, that’s when I feel most sexy.”
“I’ve been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.”
“Judgment is judgment, whether you’re obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.”
“At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don’t think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?”
“I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.”
“I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.”
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