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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
Marat Safin
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Marat Safin
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 27
Politician
Tennis Player
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Survive
Wake
Running
More quotes by Marat Safin
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?
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 pay the bills, I pay for everything.
Marat Safin
Everything is possible in this life.
Marat Safin
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.
Marat Safin
If you're losing, just be a man be a man and lose as a man.
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
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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
We live because of the dreams.
Marat Safin
I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
Marat Safin
Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.
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
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.
Marat Safin
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.
Marat Safin
'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...
Marat Safin
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.
Marat Safin
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.'
Marat Safin
One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
Marat Safin
New York is a fantastic city.
Marat Safin