Marat Safin Quotes

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

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

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

Everything is possible in this life.

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.

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?

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.

We live because of the dreams.

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

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

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.

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just want to make everyone happy.

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

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

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

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

I didn't change the world.

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

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a materialistic person.

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

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.

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.

I don't care about losses anymore.

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

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

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

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

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 pay the bills, I pay for everything.

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.

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.

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