175 Quotes by Marat Safin

Maybe I went for it too much, ... I started to make mistakes and I became frustrated as he became more solid.

It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

I was ill the last two days. I was still a bit weak. I wasn't ready for this.

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.

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

I would have loved to win here in Moscow playing for the first time in front of so many Russian fans and of course I'm disappointed by losing,

I have been working very hard and my knee is a lot better but it would not be right to go to a Grand Slam and test my knee right now. I am sorry to all my Australian fans but I will be back next year.

New York is a fantastic city.

I don't know why I would not be serene.