Top 30 Marat Safin Quotes

I’m not fighting with myself.

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

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 just want to make everyone happy.

I enjoy my life.

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

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

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

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

Me, I don’t need money.

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

I don’t care about losses anymore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am not a player.

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

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

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

We live because of the dreams.

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

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.

I have no regrets.

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.

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.