Marat Safin Quotes
-
We live because of the dreams.
→ -
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.
→ -
I pay the bills, I pay for everything.
→ -
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
→ -
Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.
→ -
I try to do my best to have fun off the court.
→ -
If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.
→ -
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.
→ -
You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.
→ -
Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.
→ -
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
→ -
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
→ -
I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
→ -
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo.
→ -
Me, I don't need money.
→ -
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.
→ -
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 won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.
→ -
I didn't change the world.
→ -
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 don't care about losses anymore.
→ -
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
→ -
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
→ -
One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
→ -
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
→ -
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.
→ -
I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
→ -
It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...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.
→ -
Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.
→ -
It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.
→ -
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
→
Related Authors
-
Nikolay Davydenko Tennis player -
Tim Henman Tennis player -
Lleyton Hewitt Tennis player -
Rafael Nadal Tennis player -
Dinara Safina Tennis player -
Andre Agassi Tennis player -
Ernests Gulbis Tennis player -
Stan Wawrinka Tennis player -
Mark Philippoussis Tennis player -
Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis player -
Novak Djokovic Tennis player -
Pete Sampras Tennis player -
Andy Roddick Tennis player -
Tommy Haas Tennis player -
David Nalbandian Tennis player -
Gustavo Kuerten Tennis player -
Roger Federer Tennis player -
Andy Murray Tennis player -
Yevgeny Kafelnikov Tennis player -
Patrick Rafter Tennis player