"No thank you. I want to be a winner" - Thirtheen year-old phenom Maria Sharapova's response after being called "Kourni-clona" by an HBO reporter.

"She'd rather entertain than win. She loves the applause; she is the queen", ex-coach Eric Van Harpen

"She's a born diva", Jim Courrier

"It's quite amazing to stand on the court with her and see so many guys going nuts" - mixed doubles partner, Jonas Bjorkman

"There's an aura around her. The way she acts, talks and walks, the whole appearance. And believe me, it was there when she was 11 years old." - Claud Martens, an Adidas representative

"She knew who she was and she wanted all the attention" previous coach Nick Bollitieri

"Let's be frank, she was not over polite" - previous coach Nick Bollitieri

"Where Anna Kournikova comes up, lights go on, hearts run over,
thoughts become weak." GQ magazine quote

"I hate women tennis. But I could watch Anna for two hours even playing shuttlecock." - Richard Kraijeck

"A learning experience that's for sure. Sometimes not very fun but it is what it is." - Sergei Federov (when asked how going out with Anna was)

"Anna has 2 cellular phones..one per boyfriend" - Nathalie Tauziat

"I can speak without jealousy or nastiness, because I like her. She is fun and rather nice, even if she unfortunately does not show respect to everyone. In my opinion, she's already had enough of being worshiped. Enough of always being told that she's the prettiest, the best this, the best that. Even if she plays up her charm and her physical attributes, the dream of her life is to play tennis. It's her passion. A true one. What she wants is to finally win a tournament and be recognized for that, or play in a Grand Slam final, and it's for that reason I like her a lot. In the end, we've arrived at an absurd situation where she has become the victim of a system that she herself has helped develop more or less willingly." - Nathalie Tauziat

-"it's bad enough to enough to default in the first round, but it's the worst thing to default to Kournikova" Lindsay Davenport

"We won't do anything naked" Alla (Anna's mother)

"Female tennis stars are not supposed to be this beautiful.." The Times Magzine

"She is the perfect Californian dream girl: creamy, flawless skin, steel-blue eyes, pronounced cheekbones, and most important of all, that mass of pale golden hair which she likes to wear in pigtails." The Times Magzine

"She didn't win Wimbledon but Anna Kournikova certainly won the battle of the front pages" - The Times Magzine

"Anna will be back"- Martina Hingis

"I hate playing her. And I don't play if I'm on the court against her. It's her person and everything around her...It's not her game"-Patty Schnyder

"Anna will get to use the mirror of the locker room"-Pam Shriver

"Anna doesn't have an idol..she's her own"-Nick Bollettieri

"We all like each other except Kournikova, no one likes her"-Patty Schnyder

"I just want to prove that Anna isn't all that"-Irina Spirlea

"She's just a pretty girl who gets all the attention"-Irina Spirlea

"Anna spends more time with make-up and stuff like that ...I think movies would be a great job for her"-Martina Hingis