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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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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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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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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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It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
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I'm not fighting with myself.
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I pay the bills, I pay for everything.
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You cannot take all the chances you get.
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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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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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You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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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 don't care about losses anymore.
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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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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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My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.
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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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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've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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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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