Marat Safin

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.

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.

I enjoy my life.

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

We live because of the dreams.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I didn't change the world.

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.