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Marat Safin [1980-0] Russian

Rank: 101
Athlete, Tennis player

Marat Mubinovich Safin is a Russian retired tennis player and politician. 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.

Change, Dreams, Hope

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Change, Hope	101
I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.		102
I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.		103
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.		104
You cannot take all the chances you get.		105
I don't care about losses anymore.		106
One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.		107
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.		108
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.		109
I'm not a materialistic person.		110
You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.		111
I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.		112
It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.		113
I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.		114
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.		115
I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.		116
I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.		117
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.		118
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.		119
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.		120
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.		121
I'm not fighting with myself.		122
You cannot change me; this is the way I am.		123
Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.		124
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.		125
We live because of the dreams.	Dreams	126
I didn't change the world.		201
You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.		202
I have no regrets.		203
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.		204
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.		205
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.		206
You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.		207
There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.		208
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.		209
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.		210
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.		211
I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.		212
I just want to make everyone happy.		213
New York is a fantastic city.		214
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.		215
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.		216
Me, I don't need money.		217
There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.		218
Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.		219
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.		220
I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.		221
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.		222
I hate competition.		223
I try to do my best to have fun off the court.		224
I enjoy my life.		225
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.		226
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.		301
I am not a player.		302
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'.		303

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