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

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

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

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

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.

If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

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.