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The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Virat Kohli

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.
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Distraction Quick Run Sports Thinking Time Yourself
Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
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Love Myself Place
I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.
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Acceptance Focus Goodness Happiness Myself People Performance Team Thinking
As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.
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Fame Feeling Happiness Love People Person Recognition Sports Yourself
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
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Believe Hard Work Success Yourself
It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.
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Achievement Decision Life Myself Need Waste Work Hard
On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.
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Anger Control Emotion Game Learning Positive Quick Yourself
I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.
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Change Discipline Focus Missing Myself Preparation Time
I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‘Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.’
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Improvement Myself Play Talk
It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.
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Attention Doubt Feeling Myself Woman
I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
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Attention Experience Focus Myself Past Pay Reading Writing Yourself
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
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Achievement Morning Play Poor Reality Recognition Strength Weakness Yourself
I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.
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Emotion Life Movie Myself
Tough game but happy to be on the winning side.
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Game Happiness Tough Win
Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.
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Career Extraordinary Himself Short Time
As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.
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Children Feeling Goodness Idol Myself Possible Sports
A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
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Attitude Body Confidence Difference Greatness Remember Rude Yourself
I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.
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Book Myself Planning Reading Study
If you’re true to yourself, you won’t fear anything.
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Be Yourself Fear True
I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
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Happiness Myself Planning Play Talent
I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.
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Art Different Face Fans Fingers Herself Myself
I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.
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Learning Mistake Myself Time Yourself
My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.
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Dream Game Himself Idol Inspirational Life Myself Play Win
The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.
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Happiness Myself Play Sports
I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!
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Appearance Decision Fashion Goodness Love Myself
No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.
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Play Sports Team Win World
Unity is the vehicle, desire is the fuel.
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Desire Success Unity

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

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