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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

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.
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Consistent Goodness Help Important Recognition Time Yourself
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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Different Education Football Myself Position Problem Sports Team
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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Comment Element Listening Mystery Radio Traffic
I leave with sadness, but also with pride.
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Leaving Myself Pride Sadness
He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.
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Ability Balance Example Greatness Himself
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.
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Defeat Failure Help Kind Myself Personality Preparation Start Victory
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Allow Battery Myself Reading Recharge
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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Career Management Sports Time Tough
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
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Drive End Irritation Lose Result Road
I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.
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Answer Money Myself People Time
I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
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Important Life Myself Public Thinking
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Cricket Intellectual Intense Myself Play
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.
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Cricket Goodness Myself People Public
I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
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Built Image Myself Reputation
I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.
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Dedication Determination Failure Myself Stop Time Try

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.

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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.

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