Marat Safin Quotes

I'm not fighting with myself.

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

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

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

New York is a fantastic city.

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.

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.

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

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.

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

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

I'm not a materialistic person.

I don't care about losses anymore.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court...Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve.

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

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'.

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

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.

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.

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

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

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

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

You cannot take all the chances you get.

I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo.

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

We live because of the dreams.

I didn't change the world.

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

'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...

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

I just want to make everyone happy.

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

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

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

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

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.