Marat Safin Quotes

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

We live because of the dreams.

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

I didn't change the world.

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

Everything is possible in this life ...

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

Me, I don't need money.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

I hate competition.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I'm not fighting with myself.

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

I just want to make everyone happy.

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

I'm not a materialistic person.

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

I enjoy my life.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

I am not a player.

I don't care about losses anymore.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

New York is a fantastic city.