Quotes By Marat Safin

I hate competition.

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

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

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.

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'm not fighting with myself.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.

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 definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

I enjoy my life.

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

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

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