Marat Safin Quotes

Me, I don't need money.

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

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle was so painful. But I am not a person who runs a lot, who spends a lot of energy on the court. If I am mentally OK, if nothing is bothering me and I want to play, then it is fine.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

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.

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

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

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

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

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

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

It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...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.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

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 could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

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

That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.

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

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

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

It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything -- I had nothing to lose, basically I was starting from zero. And now I'm back in Top 5. And for me it's a different stage.

Everything is possible in this life.

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?