Quotes By 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.

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

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.

Me, I don't need money.

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.

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

I am not a player.

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.

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

I hate competition.

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.

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

I didn't change the world.

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'm not fighting with myself.

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

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

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

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

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

New York is a fantastic city.

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

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

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

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

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