Quotes & Sayings About Marat

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

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist. — Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life ... — Marat Safin

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. — Marat Safin

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

I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo. — 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. — Marat Safin

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none. — 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

That was ... that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close. — Marat Safin

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you. — Marat Safin

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else. — Marat Safin

He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat. — Lleyton Hewitt

Me, I don't need money. — Marat Safin

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win. — Marat Safin

Provence and Artois will be back. Antoinette. She will resume her state. The priests will be back. Children now in their cradles will suffer for what their fathers and mothers did.' Marat leaned forward, his body hunched, his eyes intent, as he did when he spoke from the tribune at the Jacobins. 'It will be an abattoir, an abattoir of a nation. — Hilary Mantel

I'm not a materialistic person. — Marat Safin

I enjoy my life. — Marat Safin

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude. — Jean-Paul Marat

I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court ... Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve. — Marat Safin

Always dream big, but respect little things that surrounds you every day on your life path! — Marat M'saev Daan

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

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different. — Marat Safin

I'm not fighting with myself. — Marat Safin

If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way ... My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain. — 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

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes. — Jean-Paul Marat

Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchists, disorganisers, Dantonism, Robespierrism, Jacobinism ... Do not cherish any longer the popular errors; cut at the roots of superstition! Declare openly that the priests are your enemies. — Jean-Paul Marat

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat

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

Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. — Obafemi Awolowo

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it. — Marat Safin

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. — Marat Safin

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move. — Marat Safin

God has always been hard on the poor. — Jean-Paul Marat

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

We live because of the dreams. — Marat Safin

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. — 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

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. — Marat Safin

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. — Jean-Paul Marat

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress. — Marat Safin

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't. — Marat Safin

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected. — Jacques Pierre Brissot

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass. — Marat Safin

I am not a player. — Marat Safin

She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her. — Vladimir Nabokov

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers. — Jean-Paul Marat

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court. — Marat Safin

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. — Jean-Paul Marat

I hate competition. — Marat Safin

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis ... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play. — Marat Safin

I try to do my best to have fun off the court. — Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die. — Marat Safin

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well. — Marat Safin

I just want to make everyone happy. — Marat Safin

You cannot take all the chances you get. — Marat Safin

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris. — Jean-Paul Marat

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60. — Marat Safin

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth. — Marat Safin

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy. — Marat Safin

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. — Marat Safin

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. — Marat Safin

I don't care about losses anymore. — Marat Safin

You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court. — Marat Safin

Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. — Jean-Paul Marat

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far. — Marat Safin

The usage seems first to have made its appearance on the floor of the Convention in the context of insults. In February the deputy Thomas used the familiar form to rebuke Marat for one of his outbursts: "Shut up, you imbecile! — Timothy Tackett

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me. — 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

It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals. — Jean-Paul Marat

Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn ... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker. — Jean-Paul Marat

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things. — 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

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

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass. — Marat Safin

To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake ... — Jean-Paul Marat

Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life. — William Sanderson

I pay the bills, I pay for everything. — Marat Safin

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind. — Marat Safin

I didn't change the world. — Marat Safin

I've always been in two minds about women, really. On the one hand, I always liked the fact they had waists, and we hadn't. That aroused in me a feeling of - how shall I put it? - well, pleasure. Yes, pleasurable feelings. Still, on the other hand, they did stab Marat with a penknife, and Marat was Incorruptible, so they shouldn't have stabbed him. That fairly killed off the pleasure. Then again, like Karl Marx, I've always loved women for their little weaknesses - i.e. they've got to sit down to pee, and I've always liked that - that's always filled me with - well, what the hell - a sort of warm feeling. Yes, pleasurable warmth. But then again they did shoot at Lenin, with a revolver no less! And that put a damper on the pleasure as well. I mean, fair enough, sitting down to pee, but shooting at Lenin? That's a sick joke, talking about pleasure after that.

However, I digress. — Venedikt Erofeev

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people. — 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

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia. — Marat Safin

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. — 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

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. — Marat Safin

New York is a fantastic city. — Marat Safin

They guillotined Charlotte Corday and they said Marat is dead. No, Marat is not dead. Put him in the Pantheon or throw him in the sewer; it doesn't matter-he's back the next day. He's reborn in the man who has no job, the woman who has no bread, in the girl who has to sell her body, in the child who hasn't learned to read; he's reborn in the unheated tenement, in the wretched mattress without blankets, in the unemployed, in the proletariat, in the brothel, in the jailhouse, in your laws that show no pity, in your schools that give no future, and he appears in all that is ignorance and he recreates himself from all that is darkness. Oh, beware human society: you cannot kill Marat until you have killed the misery of poverty! — Victor Hugo

[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people ... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude. — Jean-Paul Marat

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive. — Marat Safin

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play. — Marat Safin

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win. — Marat Safin

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'. — Marat Safin

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen. — Marat Safin

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. — Marat Safin

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am. — Marat Safin

A shoe-shaped bath tub, within which I felt like Marat but with no white-necked maiden to stab me. — Vladimir Nabokov