“People don't realise how big it is for someone who at the age of 26 - ...” — Maria Sakkari Quote

“People don't realise how big it is for someone who at the age of 26 - not the age of 20 - cracks into the Top 10. When no one believed I could do it, myself and the people around me really believed in me.”

“Everyone has different times to break through. For me it was two or three years until I got used to the Tour - it always takes time.”

“I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.”

“My father was a GP, a general practitioner, on Staten Island. He took care of everybody. He took care of all the poor. He took care of people that fell through the cracks.”

“Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.”

“Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.”