Quotes from Marat Safin

I'm not a materialistic person.

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

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'.

I didn't change the world.

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

I hate competition.

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

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

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 could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

Everything is possible in this life.

I'm not fighting with myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

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 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 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...

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.