Quotes By Marat Safin

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.

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

You cannot take all the chances you get.

We live because of the dreams.

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

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.

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 am not a player.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm not fighting with myself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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