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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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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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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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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.
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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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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.
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Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.
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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.
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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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I don't care about losses anymore.
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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 love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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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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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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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.
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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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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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