Top 33 Marat Safin Quotes

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

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

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

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

I hate competition.

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.

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.

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

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

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’m not fighting with myself.

I don’t care about losses anymore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not a materialistic person.

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.

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

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

You cannot take all the chances you get.

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

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

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

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

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