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.
KAPIL DEVMy role models have kept on changing.
More Kapil Dev Quotes
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn’t I do so in my own country?
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I am not too intelligent.
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I always breathe cricket.
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Cricket is very simple… you play till you can sustain.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.
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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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It isn’t easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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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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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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I never said, ‘I wouldn’t help a cricketer if he approaches me.’
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