Marat Safin Quotes

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

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

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

Everything is possible in this life.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

We live because of the dreams.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I didn't change the world.

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

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

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

I just want to make everyone happy.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm not a materialistic person.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

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

I don't care about losses anymore.

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

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

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

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

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

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

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

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

You cannot take all the chances you get.

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

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

I'm not fighting with myself.

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.