Quotes from Marat Safin

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 was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

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

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

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

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

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.

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

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

New York is a fantastic city.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

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

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.

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

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

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

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

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

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

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.