Top 60 Marat Safin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I just want to make everyone happy.”

— Marat Safin

2. “Don’t get too excited when I am winning, and don’t get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.”

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3. “Everything is possible in this life...”

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4. “Me, I don’t need money.”

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

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6. “I’m not a materialistic person.”

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7. “I pay the bills, I pay for everything.”

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8. “I don’t care about losses anymore.”

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

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10. “There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn’t exist.”

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

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12. “Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.”

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13. “It’s like love. When you look too hard, you don’t find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.”

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

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

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16. “Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle was so painful. But I am not a person who runs a lot, who spends a lot of energy on the court. If I am mentally OK, if nothing is bothering me and I want to play, then it is fine.”

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

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18. “I’m not fighting with myself.”

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

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

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

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22. “Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn’t.”

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23. “My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “It’s a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything – I had nothing to lose, basically I was starting from zero. And now I’m back in Top 5. And for me it’s a different stage.”

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

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27. “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.”

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

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29. “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.”

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

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

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

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33. “We live because of the dreams.”

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

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35. “Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “If you’re losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.”

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

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40. “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.”

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

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42. “You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.”

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

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44. “Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe – I can’t hear you.”

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45. “I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.”

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46. “Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.”

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

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

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49. “It’s frustrating when you want to play but can’t. I didn’t touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.”

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

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