Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Marat Safin

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Marat Mubinovich Safin is a Russian retired world No. 1 tennis player and former politician. He achieved the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 1 singles ranking on 20 November 2000. Safin is also the older brother of former WTA world No. 1 player Dinara Safina. They are the only brother-sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved No. 1 rankings.Safin began his professional tennis career in 1997, and held the No. 1 ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 US Open, defeating Pete Sampras in the final, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Lleyton Hewitt in the final. Safin helped lead Russia to Davis Cup victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semifinals of Wimbledon at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, where he lost to Roger Federer. At the time of his retirement in November 2009, he was ranked world No. 61. In 2011, he became a member of the State Duma representing the United Russia party. In 2016, he became the first Russian tennis player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Russian - Athlete | Born: January 27, 1980

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I don't care about losses anymore.

Marat Safin

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

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

Marat Safin

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

Marat Safin

I am not a player.

Marat Safin

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

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, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Marat Safin

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

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 day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

Marat Safin

We live because of the dreams.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

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 care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

Me, I don't need money.

Marat Safin

I didn't change the world.

Marat Safin

I hate competition.

Marat Safin

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

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

You cannot take all the chances you get.

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

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

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.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

I'm not fighting with myself.

Marat Safin

I just want to make everyone happy.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Marat Safin

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

New York is a fantastic city.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

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'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.

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 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

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

I'm not a materialistic person.

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 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.

Marat Safin

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

Marat Safin

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

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 then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

Marat Safin

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

Marat Safin

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Marat Safin