“Besides being a national level basketball champion, I have played a lot of other sports like volleyball, badminton, kho-kho, and kabbadi.”

Running is something that I have been doing from a long time, and hence, it is very important to me.

Modelling has given me so much confidence.

I feel very fortunate to have made my debut with Sunny Deol. I’m aware of his stardom, his popularity, and his reach. I’m sure that teaming up with him has made people sit back and notice me.

People need to understand that whatever they see us saying on screen, we are not doing it on our own.

I don’t want people to treat me like a star or call me one.

The only way to be successful in what you do is to love what you do.

I believe in quality over quantity.

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she’s clad from head to toe.

Fitness is just like marriage: you cannot cheat on it and think it would benefit you. People need to incorporate it as part of their daily life.

I want to convey to women across the globe that they aren’t weak. They can fight for themselves and get justice.

I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad.

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.

When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.

Karan Johar is absolutely an amazing director. I dream to work with Karan.

It’s a win-win situation when you make your debut with a superstar like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, or Sunny Deol. The audience walks in to watch the actors they idolise; they also end up noticing beginners like me.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months’ practice: it takes years to make a champion.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you’re remembered for. It’s how you’re measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it’s at.

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

A champion team needs only a small window of opportunity to stage a fightback, something I had learnt over the years.

Champions don’t give up when things get hard; they keep trying.  

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.

Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions.