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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

On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.
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Ability Cricket God Leadership
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
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.
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Career Image Life 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
Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.
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Children Confidence Fact Myself Remember Team
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect & pride.
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Play Pride Respect Revenge Yourself
I leave with sadness, but also with pride.
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Leaving Myself Pride Sadness
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 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
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.
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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.
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Cricket People Service Success Time
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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Alone Chase Country Dreams Fulfill Imagination Myself Play
No dream is ever chased alone.
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Alone Chase Dreams One Liner Team Work
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.
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Administration Cricket Fans Government Important Life Public Yourself
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
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

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.

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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.

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