I do not usually follow a rigid fitness regimen, and most of it depends upon what goals I have in my mind.
– Gautam Gambhir
There is no point in winning contests if you can’t leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.
– Gautam Gambhir
One needs to be clear headed. I believe in all-round fitness.
– Gautam Gambhir
A small country like Israel has compulsory military training. But countries like India, that are so much bigger, have no compulsory military training, so people don’t understand how the military functions. They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it.
– Gautam Gambhir
I’ve always maintained – a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
– Gautam Gambhir
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
– Sachin Tendulkar
I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
– Sachin Tendulkar
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
– Sachin Tendulkar
I’m really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
– Sachin Tendulkar
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
– Sachin Tendulkar
In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.
– Dale Steyn
I don’t know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it’s the ability to do something that nobody else can really do.
– Dale Steyn
Every ball matters – if with the last ball the opposition need four to win, and you’ve gone for 96, can you get that out of your mind and bowl a dot ball and win the game?
– Dale Steyn
I think the more common players who have been around for a while – Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad – those guys I know of, they’re fantastic players.
– Dale Steyn
I don’t think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.
– Dale Steyn
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people’s lives.
– Ian Botham
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
– Ian Botham
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
– Ian Botham
To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
– Ian Botham
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
– Ian Botham
There are some people who feel that they deserve a particular award or recognition, but I don’t fall in that category.
– Mithali Raj
Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.
– Mithali Raj
Let’s say something like Olympics is happening, I will definitely watch because that is something which is live after so many months. I think sports will definitely get people to watch.
– Mithali Raj
If you keep winning, people will stay glued to our cricket.
– Mithali Raj
Cricket is not gender biased. It isn’t that men’s cricket is different and women’s a different one.
– Mithali Raj
A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don’t know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
– Harbhajan Singh
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
– Harbhajan Singh
International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one’s self and try to grow as a cricketer.
– Harbhajan Singh
Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
– Harbhajan Singh
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
– Harbhajan Singh