Marat Safin Quotes
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'.
Safin, Marat. "Post-Match Press Conference." ASAP Sports, 2 July 2008.
During the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton, later first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, played a minor role due to his extreme views on the monarchy. A fellow delegate remarked that
That decade was a particularly contentious one with respect to American politics. Ideologues tended to dominate much of the political rhetoric. Chambliss, a conservative Republican. had just been criticized by one of the non-elected right wing ideologues for having conversations with a Democratic senator about the framework that might be used for a bipartisan effort to deal with the rapidly growing entitlements fraction of the national budget. Chambliss was not deterred by the fanatics in his own party.
Most people are surprised that Lee suggested his being replaced when his army lacked military success. Strategically, he had a hopeless task. The incompetence of General McClellan and other Union Generals is the only reason that the war lasted as long as it did. However, Lee got about as much as any military commander could have given the greater manpower, industrial production, communications and transportation of the Union to say nothing of the much superior technology.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Marat Mubinovich Safin is a Russian politician and retired professional tennis player. He achieved the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 1 singles ranking on 20 November 2000. Nobody taller than Safin has ever reached the No. 1 ranking. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player Dinara Safina. They are the only brother–sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved No. 1 rankings. On court, Safin was famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper. Safin began his professional tennis career in 1997, and held the No. 1 ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 US Open, defeating Pete Sampras, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the final. Safin helped lead Russia to Davis Cup victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semifinals of Wimbledon at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, where he lost to Roger Federer. At the time of his retirement in November 2009, he was ranked No. 61 in the world. In 2011, he became a member of the State Duma representing the United Russia party. In 2016, he became the first Russian tennis player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
