When you take risks and things don’t go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
KAPIL DEVSelectors can’t please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It’s an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn’t I do so in my own country?
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Selectors can’t please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It’s an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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When you have to work, work with a smile.
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One can’t feel old in a day or overnight!
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
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Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.
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Speed can’t always get you wickets.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven’t seen God. But I think that one’s beliefs are one’s God – and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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