Balls Quote by Marat Safin

Football has an important place in Russia.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

We want people to talk more about tennis in Russia.

— Daniil Medvedev

In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a grave social situation in Russia; our social protection system was destroyed; numerous problems emerged which…

— Vladimir Putin

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

— Henry Rollins

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

— Garry Kasparov

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

— Lemmy Kilmister

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire…

— Jimmy Hoffa

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

— Bill Browder

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that…

— Boris Nemtsov

The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the…

— Dave Barry