Quotes By Marat Safin
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.
Marat Safin
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
Marat Safin
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'.
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
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'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
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.
Marat Safin
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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 give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
Marat Safin
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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
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.
Marat Safin