Izvestiya Interview
Marat Safin: "Lying Around Doing Nothing Doesn't Interest Me" by Andrey Ivantsov
馬拉特 薩芬 "我不能躺著沒事幹"
俄國媒體Izvestiya Interview八月薩芬專訪


英文專文來自TGFR http://guyfromrussia.proboards48.com/index.cgi?board=press2006&;action=display&thread=1153386703

Russia's Marat Safin keeps trying to get back into the world tennis elite after a serious knee injury, which forced him to miss the second half of last year's season. Until now Safin's most successful performance was in Valencia where he reached semifinals. Other tournaments were less successful and that caused Marat to drop to a humiliating 95th position in the ATP rankings. Prior to an Indianapolis tournament, where Marat is planning to fight fate yet again, our correspondent decided to ask the player whether he was not fed up with that.
俄國的MARAT SAFIN 在嚴重的膝傷被迫放棄去年後半的所有比賽後﹐正試圖重回網壇頂尖行列。到目前為止﹐薩芬最好的表現在瓦倫西亞﹐進入四強。其他的比賽毫無斬獲﹐致使他的排 名掉到不堪的95名。在INDIANPLOLIS 比賽MARAT又再嘗試與命運對抗之際﹐我們的記者決定去問問他﹐是不是受夠了這些措折了

There has been certain information in the press that you have gotten pretty tired of all this non-resultful battle...
Q 新聞上時有提到你對於這一連串失敗已經很厭倦了

This is not true and people who say that are just trying to provoke. It's really hard for me right now. I was counting to slowly rise in the rankings and I am falling down...(after a pause) But this is not the reason to quit fighting. We have Andre Agassi's example before us, who successfully returned to tennis after a long break being out of top 100. So rankings are not the most important thing, it's finding your game which is. And this will definitely happen this year. Two-three serious wins and I will be unstoppable.
MS 這絕不是事實﹐講這些話的人不過是在無中生有﹐刻意刺激我罷了。現在我的處境真的很艱難。我一直期望能慢慢爬昇﹐但相反地我卻是不斷在下降 (MARAT停頓了一下)。但這不是放棄奮鬥下去的理由。我們有阿加西這麼一個鮮明的例子﹐他在休息好一陣子百名之外後又成功地復出。所以﹐排名也許不是 最重要﹐而是找回自己的狀態。我確信今年一定會的﹐兩三次優異的贏球之後﹐我便會變得很勇猛了。

[i]So the quality of the game is much more important now than the results?
Q 所以比賽的品質比結果重要嗎

Well, ideally I would love to have both of course. When I was just starting to get ready to come back on court in winter my coach Peter Lundgren used to say: don't rush, be careful. I on the other hand was dying to run out and catch up on everything I had missed 6 months before. As a result the plan of knee rehabilitation almost fell to pieces: the knee started killing me again, that's when I realised that rushing can cost me a fortune.
理想上﹐我想要兩者兼得。當冬天我開始試著要回到球場時﹐我的教練 PETER 告訴我﹐不要急﹐要小心。我卻是等不及要出去趕上我缺席的那半年﹐不料膝蓋復健的結果不如預期順利﹐我的膝蓋又讓我痛徹心扉﹐那時我才驚覺 急就章 將會有可怕的代價

You are quite a famous man with loads of famous friends and connections, why do you wanna keep torturing your body? Kournikova, for example, plays exhibition tournaments, does commercials, lives a great life...
Q 你是那麼有名﹐有很多朋友﹐也有不少管道﹐為什麼會要這樣持續折磨自己的身體呢? 舉例來說﹐庫娃﹐打一些表演賽﹐拍廣告﹐享受優閒的生活...

It only seems that such a popular guy like me will have no problem finding himself outside tennis. In reality it's practically impossible. Business? You have to spend tons of time on it every day, know the stuff. For a person like me who spent all of his life playing tennis it's impossible and simply selling my face and name and then lying around doing nothing is not interesting for me. I am used to living with a drive which tennis provides fully.
MS 談起來好像一個像我這樣的人在網球場外就會吃香喝辣﹐沒有問題似的。現實上那是不可能的。生意﹐事業? 你要深入瞭解它﹐每天花很多時間在上面。對一生都在打網球的傢伙
而言﹐那是完全不可能。只是賣我的臉蛋和名氣﹐躺在那裡什麼事也不幹﹐我是完全沒興趣的。我已經習慣循著某種動力來生活﹐而這全部都來自網球。

What's more difficult for you: getting back on track physically or psychologically?
Q 什麼對你是比較困難的: 回復到過去的生理或心理狀態?

Physically I am feeling very well right now, maybe my legs are a little too weak, but I have a strong head, which is the most important in sports.
MS 生理上我現在很好﹐也許我的腳有點太脆弱﹐但我有腦子﹐對運動員是最重要的

On a number of occasions Peter Lundgren said that recently your character has changed to a great extent. How exactly?
Q 在很多場合裡﹐PETER LUNDGREN 曾說最近你個性改變了很多。是這樣嗎

Probably I started cherishing people that surround me more - family, friends. In autumn when I was curing the knee I used to watch other players on TV and realised: I am just an ordinary guy...plus limping (laughs). It will be very difficult in this life for a guy like me without the love and support of people close to me. And all this image and populatiry stuff it's just a glittery wrap of a beautiful box, which needs to have something grand inside that cannot be measured in money terms.
MS 大概是我更珍惜身邊的人了﹐家人和朋友。秋季時﹐我正在治療膝蓋﹐我看電視網球轉播突然發現﹐原來我只是個凡夫估子...還加上跛腳(笑)。如果沒有這些 人的愛心和支持﹐像我這樣的人怎麼撐下去呢。而那些形象及名聲的東西﹐只是一個美麗盒子上面絃麗的包裝﹐那裡面需要有真實珍貴的東西﹐那是金錢無法衡量 的。