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I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

Rahul Dravid

You don’t win or lose the games because of 11 you select. You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field.
RAHUL DRAVID

Game Lose Player Selection Win Yourself
Sachin Tendulkar is already a ‘Bharat Ratna’ for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.
RAHUL DRAVID

Cricket People Service Success Time
There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
RAHUL DRAVID

Care Deep Fans Identity People
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect & pride.
RAHUL DRAVID

Play Pride Respect Revenge Yourself
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
RAHUL DRAVID

Consistent Goodness Help Important Recognition Time Yourself
I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.
RAHUL DRAVID

Dedication Determination Failure Myself Stop Time Try
Tendulkar must have known from his heart.
RAHUL DRAVID

Heart Himself Known
I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone.
RAHUL DRAVID

Alone Chase Country Dreams Fulfill Imagination Myself Play
In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don’t have control over that as a cricketer.
RAHUL DRAVID

Career Control Cricket Life Play Yourself
Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What’s lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.
RAHUL DRAVID

Cricket Goodness Myself People Public
Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can’t get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have.
RAHUL DRAVID

Balance Brilliance Cricket Himself Honor Judgement Mindset Need Play Respect Team Technology
I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
RAHUL DRAVID

Built Image Myself Reputation
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
RAHUL DRAVID

Allow Battery Myself Reading Recharge
What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
RAHUL DRAVID

Chance Draw Enjoyment Friendship Myself Sports Team
Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life it is important.
RAHUL DRAVID

Administration Cricket Fans Government Important Life Public Yourself
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
RAHUL DRAVID

Cricket Intellectual Intense Myself Play

I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

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