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

I had once thought I would become a doctor but gave up on the thought soon enough. I took up the racquet instead. Later, when I saw my sister studying so much to become a doctor, I was like, ‘Thank God I am a shuttler!’

Previously, people were like, ‘She might win the tournament,’ but now it’s like, ‘She should win the tournament.’

My parents have been volleyball players, and my dad is an Arjuna awardee in volleyball.

Playing for Hyderabad Hunters is a very good feeling.

The year 2017 has been really good for me. Definitely, a lot of positive things to learn from.

Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.

My period days didn’t make me falter: they made me more determined to pursue my dreams.

Saina is not someone special player that I have to win against. It’s not like that I must beat her. She is one of the players.

I will keep working on different aspects of my games. It’s not so easy, and I need to work on every stroke.

I am aggressive only on court.

You have to keep working all the time. How much you learn, there is always room for learning; you will have to keep improving all the time.

My coaches have always been on my side, motivating me to try harder and harder every day, which is not easy.

You can’t compare one tournament with another.

Winning a tournament at the end of the year boosts your confidence a lot.

It’s always good to win a title.

The year 2017 has been really good for me. Definitely, a lot of positive things to learn from.

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.

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.