Football Quotes by Marat Safin

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.'

— Marat Safin

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…

— Marat Safin

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…

— Marat Safin

Me, I don't need money.

— Marat Safin

I am not a player.

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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…

— Marat Safin

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…

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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…

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin