Marat Safin Quotes

• I love tennis, but I just don’t like grass.

  Marat Safin

• 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.

  Marat Safin

• 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.

  Marat Safin

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

  Marat Safin

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

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

  Marat Safin

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

  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 ESPN… I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

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• I’m not a materialistic person.

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• I’m not fighting with myself.

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

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

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• 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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• I’ve realized I can’t waste any moment being unhappy.

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  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 question, I don’t know, a thousand times.

  Marat Safin

Marat Safin (55)

Birth:	27th January, 1980
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Politician, Tennis Player

About

Marat Safin is a Russian politician and retired tennis player of Tatar ethnicity. Safin won two Grand Slam tournaments and reached the world no. 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player, Dinara Safina. They are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history who both achieved no. 1 rankings.

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