Quotes By 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.

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

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 don't care about losses anymore.

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

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

I didn't change the world.

I have no regrets.

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

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

I just want to make everyone happy.

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.

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

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

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

New York is a fantastic city.

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

I'm not a materialistic person.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

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

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

We live because of the dreams.

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

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

I am not a player.

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.

I hate competition.

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

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.