“I don’t fear anyone. I just concentrate on giving my best.”

Women’s badminton has become so competitive.

I love making friends and make others happy. But I also love to be happy all the time. All that aggression that you see remains on the court only.

Every tournament I have won has been memorable.

Hard work is the key for success.

I have learnt many things, but there’s more to learn. Every day is a new start.

I want to beat everyone I’m playing against.

It is very important to be confident and strong even if you lose, because you know there are tournaments coming up next, and you have to be prepared for it.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.

It is hard to lose for everybody.

I love dressing up, and I’m aware that people do say that it can take your attention away from the game. But I disagree with this notion!

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months’ practice: it takes years to make a champion.

It takes years of practice to become a World No. 1 or 2.

Every tournament is important for me.

I was at the Gopichand Academy since I was 10.

My long-term goal is to become the world number one player.

I didn’t think I would have an Olympic medal at 21, but I knew I would give my best and play my game. I just viewed it as my first Olympics and that I would take it one match at a time, but to bring a silver home made me very, very happy.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

If you aren’t really careful, ‘The Good Enough’ can become the enemy of ‘The Best.’

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

I think I’d like to be best friends with Björk, because I’d like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.