Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mubinovich Safinis a Russian retired tennis player and politician. Safin won two Grand Slam tournaments and reached the world no. 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player, Dinara Safina. They are the first and only brother–sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved no. 1 rankings...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth27 January 1980
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.
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.
Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.
I'm not a materialistic person.
I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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.
I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
I just want to make everyone happy.
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.