I leave with sadness, but also with pride.
RAHUL DRAVIDI think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
More Rahul Dravid Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect & pride.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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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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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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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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