Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mubinovich Safinis a Russian retired tennis player and politician. Safin won two Grand Slam tournaments and reached the world no. 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player, Dinara Safina. They are the first and only brother–sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved no. 1 rankings...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth27 January 1980
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
I try to do my best to have fun off the court.
You cannot take all the chances you get.
I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.
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.
I'm not fighting with myself.
You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.
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.
I'm not a materialistic person.
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.