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I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

Rahul Dravid

If someone thinks, ‘I’ll spend the off season working on my fitness and I’ll come back a better cricketer,’ I don’t think that’s enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
RAHUL DRAVID

Exercise Season Skills Thinking Time Work 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
I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what’s happened. It does help a lot, especially when you’ve done badly or you’ve failed. It’s instinctive of me that I look at what’s next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.
RAHUL DRAVID

Defeat Failure Help Kind Myself Personality Preparation Start Victory
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 was given a talent to play cricket. I don’t know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
RAHUL DRAVID

Best Day Play Talent
I leave with sadness, but also with pride.
RAHUL DRAVID

Leaving Myself Pride Sadness
On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.
RAHUL DRAVID

Ability Cricket God Leadership
I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
RAHUL DRAVID

Different Education Football Myself Position Problem Sports Team
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
I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
RAHUL DRAVID

Built Image Myself Reputation
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 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
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
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
RAHUL DRAVID

Career Image Life 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 was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.
RAHUL DRAVID

Answer Money Myself People Time

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

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