Marat Safin

I just want to make everyone happy.

— Marat Safin

I'm not fighting with myself.

— Marat Safin

I am not a player.

— Marat Safin

We live because of the dreams.

— Marat Safin

New York is a fantastic city.

— Marat Safin

I hate competition.

— Marat Safin

I'm not a materialistic person.

— Marat Safin

I don't care about losses anymore.

— Marat Safin

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

— Marat Safin

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

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

— 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

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— 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

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

— Marat Safin

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

— Marat Safin

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

— 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

I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live…

— Marat Safin

It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything --…

— Marat Safin

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger…

— Marat Safin

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on…

— 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

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the…

— 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

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've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like…

— Marat Safin

Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding…

— 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…

— 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

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…

— 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