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.

I hate competition.

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.

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'.

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

Me, I don't need money.

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

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

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

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

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

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.