A biography for Marat Safinhasn’t been written yet.
“You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.”
“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.”
“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 try to do my best to have fun off the court.”
“There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.”
“I don't care about losses anymore.”
“There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.”
“Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.”
“Me, I don't need money.”
“I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.”
“I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.”
“I enjoy my life.”
“I'm not fighting with myself.”
“If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.”
“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.”
“I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.”
“I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.”
“I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.”
“I didn't change the world.”
“I hate competition.”