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

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Marat Safin
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 27
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Moscow
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'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...
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle was so painful. But I am not a person who runs a lot, who spends a lot of energy on the court. If I am mentally OK, if nothing is bothering me and I want to play, then it is fine.
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I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
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It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
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If you're losing, just be a man be a man and lose as a man.
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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.
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It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything -- I had nothing to lose, basically I was starting from zero. And now I'm back in Top 5. And for me it's a different stage.
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You cannot take all the chances you get.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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Everything is possible in this life.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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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.'
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?
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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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I'm not fighting with myself.
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