Marat Safin

I hate competition.

— Marat Safin

I am not a player.

— Marat Safin

I just want to make everyone happy.

— Marat Safin

I'm not fighting with myself.

— Marat Safin

I didn't change the world.

— Marat Safin

I don't care about losses anymore.

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

— Marat Safin

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

— Marat Safin

You cannot take all the chances you get.

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— 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

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next…

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended…

— 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

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever…

— Marat Safin

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets,…

— Marat Safin

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't…

— 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…

— Marat Safin

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…

— Marat Safin

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost…

— 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…

— Marat Safin

It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm…

— 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…

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

— Marat Safin

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

— 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

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

— Marat Safin

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.

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin