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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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Marat Safin
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 27
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Tennis Player
Moscow
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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 definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
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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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Everything is possible in this life.
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It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
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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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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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If you're losing, just be a man be a man and lose as a man.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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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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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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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
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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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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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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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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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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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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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