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.”

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

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

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

“New York is a fantastic city.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I am not a player.”

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

“I just want to make everyone happy.”