Marat Safin

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.”

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

“You cannot take all the chances you get.”

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

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

“I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.”

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

“We live because of the dreams.”

“I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.”

“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.”

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

“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'.”

“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.”

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