Great Quotes From Marat :)))

[ARMgirl55]

Hi everybody, I opened this thread to talk about Marat's

Quotes. As everyone knows he has a lot of great

quotes on different topics. So write your opinions on

his quotes and also add any new quotes by Marat.

[ARMgirl55]

ON HIS CHILDHOOD AND BEING RUSSIAN:

"You have to think about where you're coming from and how much money you had before. You cannot forget these things." "You cannot lose touch. There is no chance. A shitty life, you never forget."

"Nobody can actually understand Russians. It's difficult. You can, but it's difficult, right?"

"I do not know how to analyze this in detail. Different mentalities, different lives, different ways to react. How to explain it? I am not Sigmund Freud!"

"I wasn't interested in tennis, but didn't know what to do with my feets, too."

"You want to sit in the five-star hotels? You have to get here and, believe me, it's a long way. Years and years of working hard and traveling the world, and shitty hotels with no TV and no bathroom. I did all this. Going to a cafe and eating off the $5 menu. You start with $100 a week, maybe. I was down to nothing sometimes. I had to make some good results to make money. Now you come to five-star hotels, and it's, "What do you want? Coke? Whiskey?

"The mentality of Russians, it's very strange. Actually, very strong on the court. We know what we want and we fight."

"I wasn't a genius I wasn't stupid. I was okay. I was a normal guy. Sometimes I cheated in exams. we all do."

[Tita]

ARMgirl55 said:

ON HIS CHILDHOOD AND BEING RUSSIAN:

"Nobody can actually understand Russians. It's difficult. You can, but it's difficult, right?"

I'm sorry but I just had to LM*AO at that one!!

[ARMgirl55]

TITa well that is Marat u know

sometimes I think he doesn't understand himself lol

[ARMgirl55]

ON BEING A STAR

"The stars are only in the sky"

"I don't want to be Agassi or Kournikova."

"Sure, I would love to be the next Pete and I'm doing everything possible to get there."

"I want to be happy, to enjoy, that's the most important thing. I don't want to say that I like being famous or that I look for it, but people recognize me or whatever, why would I not be nice to them? We have a good life here. If part of that means that I am recognized or people want my autograph, it's OK."

"I prefer to be nobody, so nobody expects a lot from me. Nobody is putting me under pressure, you know, that you have to win and you have be one of the favourites."

"When I look at a dollar note, I only see a picture of George Washington on a piece of paper. Money is only money. It makes the life easier, but I don't feel sexy or mighty because of that."


"After I had won the US Open, my recognizing value climb up. Unfortunately the funny things don't happened to me now - such as last new-year's-eve in Moscow. I wanted to go to a famous club and they didn't let me in. I liked it. When today somebody don't recognize me and ask me what I do professionally, I always answer that I'm a poor student. That's more interesting and funnier."

"I am not a singer or a rock star. Tennis is tennis. If you want to see a clown, go to a circus."

[ARMgirl55]

ON WOMEN AND FRIENDS.

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

"You need somebody. Otherwise you are too lonely. You get sick of the guys. You want to see a beautiful girl, to talk, discuss about things, get angry, make something happen. Otherwise life is boring."

"All the girls, they want to be famous, right?"

"When you are losing to a girl, I say, "What are you doing? It's not normal." But it happens in this age."

"Anna Kournikova. She is a very beautiful girl or young lady - whichever you'd call her. I also like the German Jana Kandarr, she is more a model. But I like Anna and Jana more outwardly - from afar. For example, I wouldn't marry Anna."

(on being a ladies' man)"Of course! I'm not gay! Find me one normal guy who doesn't like women's company. I think it's good. It's natural. You cannot fight against the nature, right?"

"Do you like Madonna? I love her"

"You count me as a manufacturer? I think that there are many people in Russia who would like to spend their sperm for money. If I need a child, my love will give birth to it."

[sydney]

he makes me laugh !
there is not 2 like him and that's why we like him!!!

[ARMgirl55]

Sydney you so right

That is why people call him

" The Most Quoteable Guy..."


P.S. Soon I will post more of his quotes

[pau]

lol!! those quotes are awesome!!!! thanks ARMgirl55!! ;D

[ARMgirl55]

You welcome pau.

there ARE really awesome, wait till u see the rest of them.

[ARMgirl55]

ON FINDING MOTIVATION AND HIS GAME:

"I just want to be on my line.. playing Marat Safin style."

"It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes."

I'm looking for it, trying to. But is already half a year passed. Not many months is still left so I have to hurry up (laughter)."

"To be honest, sometimes I really don't feel like hitting the ball on the court - I am so lazy."
"So I understood, finally understood at the age of 23 and becoming 24 that it's not the way I should treat myself and suffer on the court trying to get pissed."

"Try to get back to where I was, where I was before, it's a long way, it's a difficult one, but also the year is starting so I have to...to, you know it's time to wake up!"

"Sometimes it's difficult to find motivation in the first rounds just because of the -- sometimes it's difficult just to push yourself to win the tough matches like, for example, today and the match of yesterday. You have to find the extra motivation to win these matches. So of course when you get to the quarterfinals and semifinals, it's very interesting because you're playing a big time, you're playing for the points, you're playing for the crowd, the crowd is coming and you have big matches. That's where you enjoy more. For example, me. The first two rounds, nobody enjoys. It's hell. So you need to fight and push yourself just to give an extra something to win and just go through in and take the confidence out of these two matches."

"I started to understand better the game over the years. And you know what's gonna happen, you see it coming. And when it comes, you get frustrated by that because you see it coming... but sometimes, you know, like you go, because it's your nature. You don't fight the nature, you know. It's like nature, you don't want to go down the line, but you go. It just like automatically calls for it. You miss it. Then you say to yourself, "I shouldn't have done that."
But once you don't miss it, so that's normal. But once you miss it, that's not normal. So these kind of things. Once you are young, you have no fear, you are playing the matches and you don't understand anything basically about tennis. You are playing and you don't care about the score." But now you start with the time, you start to... You lose your virginity. (can anyone explaim ME his point about virginity )
So that's why sometimes you choke, sometimes you start to be scared, that's why when you only play against the young guys you don't play really good tennis, and then you start to play and win ugly. But it's like this."

[kasey]

Hey ARMgirl55 u should check out the quotes section on this sight...lots of them there

[ARMgirl55]

Yea I know Kasey some of the quotes are on this site, but I have many others that are not. I just didn't post all of them.

I will later.

[kasey]

ARMgirl55 said:

Yea I know Kasey some of the quotes are on this site, but I have many others that are not. I just didn't post all of them.

I will later.

Okies cool thanks

[ARMgirl55]

On his off-court activities::


"it seems like for the people is a miracle whenever we're talking about life. It seems like that there is only tennis and there is nothing else outside of the court. But it's not like this. Everybody knows this."

"I did a little bit of fishing, a little bit of camping, all those things that make you think about life a little bit."
"Fishing like was great. We were staying like eight hours a day on a boat, you know, just sitting with our beers. We had everything. Whatever you catch, we cook and we eat.
But the problem was I couldn't swim. Was great weather. But was okay. We had wine at the night, you know, with the dinner. So it was really, really good. Just make your mind a little bit relax. Just chill out. What else you can do?"

"Do something. I mean, spend a lot of hours sleeping, try to make a couple of massages tomorrow, I mean, one or two. Just try to recover, my legs, start to prepare myself for the final. Just do something. Go for a walk, for example. Enjoy the sight-seeing. I will find something. I went two days ago in the zoo. I had so much fun. I will find out something to do."

"I try to do my best to have fun off the court, you are only 21 once. I am aware I will never get back to this time. You cannot make big parties, you cannot take cocaine or whatever, obviously, but there are plenty of other ways of having fun. And anything you can do you ought to do I think."

"I watch TV, go to restaurants. I saw Shallow Hal. That was the worst I ever saw. Terrible, horrible, disgusting movie. I think the director never watched it after he finished filming. Stupid movie." I also enjoyed "Dumb and Dumber", but I would not consider it a master piece."

"Sleep? Give me a break! What sleep?! We are cutting loose!"

"Anyway, where can I go? I have no time. Today I woke up at 11. I came here to practice. Then I played a match. I finish the match at 11 o'clock at night. Then what do I do? I go back to the hotel, I have dinner and that's it. I have to go back to sleep. Because another day is coming and I have to wake up and go to practice."

"I like to sit down and to laze around, I can spend an entire day without moving off the sofa. Me I am quite passive,I like to see life flowing."

"I am not hiding" The thing is, I like to socialize with friends, listen to the music, sometimes have some good wine. The main thing is to control oneself."

"You cannot practice during a tournament, so you play one hour and a half, you go to the gym and, what do you do with the rest of the day?" "You stay home, watch stupid TV. That's all there is? It's boring. I want to enjoy my life. I am living now at Miami Beach. I'm having so much fun. So why do I have to change my way of life? I love it."

"I had my driving licence in the last June. I don't want to be fined too soon. I love the cars. Hey I'm just 19 years old, it's normal. Every young men are little mad."

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and if you don't enjoy it now, when are you going to enjoy? When you are 30 and when you are 40, it's already too late because your best years are between 20 and 40. So you have to try to have fun. Just enjoy it and do whatever you like, and just listen to the people closest to you. You can't listen to everyone. Just live, just enjoy."

"Good or bad, I try to eat everything."

"I do the house cleaning, I wash the dishes, and I do the shopping myself. There is no woman in here"

"I have an empty refrigerator and nobody takes care of things around the house. I have nobody to cook for me, so I go to restaurants. Me cooking? No idea! Me washing clothes? No idea! I can't do anything domestic!"

"Sometimes I feel like reading a book or playing computer games. At times I manage to go to a club. I like listening to music and I like different types of it: Metallica, Halloween, Enigma. I should say that the hours of rest I have are based completely on my mood, and my mood changes 10 times a day!"

"I'm doing bad things, I'm doing good things, and I'm satisfied with that. I'm like any other person in the world who wants to live his life. Of course I'm doing stupid things, of course I'm making mistakes in my life, so I don't want to be the centre of attention. I'm okay with myself."

"Watch some movies, read some books, interested in music , you know try to have a great time. This week will be casino, try to spend some money or maybe if I am lucky I win some. So you know, I try to have fun."

"Yeah, go fishing. Just one week on a boat. I don't want to see anybody. Not on my own, my friends. Somebody has to cook, right (laughter)?"