Marat Safin Quotes

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

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

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

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

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

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

Me, I don't need money.

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

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.

New York is a fantastic city.

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

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

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

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.