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

- Marat Safin

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'.

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

New York is a fantastic city.

- Marat Safin

Me, I don't need money.

- Marat Safin

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

- Marat Safin

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.

- Marat Safin

I am not a player.

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

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.

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

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

- Marat Safin

I just want to make everyone happy.

- Marat Safin

I have no regrets.

- Marat Safin

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.

- Marat Safin