Marat Safin Quotes

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

You cannot take all the chances you get. — Marat Safin

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court. — Marat Safin

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

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

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

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen. — Marat Safin

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

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

We live because of the dreams. — Marat Safin

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

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

I didn't change the world. — Marat Safin

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

Everything is possible in this life ... — Marat Safin

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

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

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

I pay the bills, I pay for everything. — Marat Safin

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

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

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

Me, I don't need money. — Marat Safin

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

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

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

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

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

He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat. — Lleyton Hewitt

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. — Marat Safin

I hate competition. — Marat Safin

I am not a player. — Marat Safin

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

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

I'm not fighting with myself. — Marat Safin

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

I don't care about losses anymore. — Marat Safin

New York is a fantastic city. — Marat Safin

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

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

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

I'm not a materialistic person. — Marat Safin

I just want to make everyone happy. — Marat Safin

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

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. — Marat Safin

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

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

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

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. — Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die. — Marat Safin

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. — Marat Safin

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

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.' — Marat Safin

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. — Marat Safin

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

I enjoy my life. — Marat Safin

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

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

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

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