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Rahul Dravid, born on January 11, 1973, is a renowned former Indian professional cricketer. He is known in the international cricketing community for his exceptional defensive skills and consistent batting abilities. Dravid served as the captain of the Indian cricket team and achieved significant success in international competitions.

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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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“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.”

Looks Kind Doe Done Helping Next Happened Personality Victory Defeat Preparing

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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 think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.”

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“Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.”

Reading Batteries

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“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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“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.”

People Care Games Fans Who We Are Who Cares Cricketers

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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.”

Years Firsts Careers Couple Stuck Rest Of Your Life You Like It

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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.”

Important Sometimes Helping Skills Important Things Good Things Consistently Recognise

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“The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.”

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“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”

Years Firsts Used Nations Answers Break Five Used To Be Five Years Frustrating Trophies

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“I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.”

Knows Giving Play Given Wish Talent Cricket

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“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.”

Feels Different Problem School Challenges Team Position Football Evolve Hockey Feel Better Batting Hockey Team

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“There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.”

Ifs Want Stuff Normal Balls Tennis Substitutes Slips Catching Vary Youngsters Tennis Balls Catching You

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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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“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.”

People Years Indian Cricket Phenomenal Tendulkar Bharat

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“I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.”

People Ifs Would Be Rupees

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“On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.”

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“Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.”

May Ends Loses Results Accidents Rage Drivers Unwanted Road Rage Honking

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“My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.”

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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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“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.”

Ifs Facts Running Remember Used Team Tests Used To Be Mates Grandchildren Cricket My Grandchildren Tendulkar Team Mate

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“I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.”

Built I Am What I Am

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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.”

People Sports Chance Groups Team Victory Celebrate Enjoyed Sports Team Camaraderie Victory And Success

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“There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.”

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“I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.”

Intellectual Intense Cricketers

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“I leave with sadness, but also with pride.”

Sadness Pride Cricket

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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.”

Long Country Dream Boys Journey India Fulfilling

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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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“If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.”

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“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”

People Thinking Made Ability Mistake Talent Judging Discipline Determination Balls Strikes Timing Sweetness Cricket Temperament Same Mistakes

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“You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select. You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field.”

Games Winning Loses Fields Select Win Or Lose

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“Tendulkar must have known from his heart”

Heart Known Tendulkar

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“You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride”

Play Pride Revenge

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“Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers”

Inspiration Young Bigger Cricketers

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“I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.”

Trying Sports Failure Perseverance Cricket Not Giving Up

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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.”

People Lucky Various Enormous Cricket Publicity

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“No dream is ever chased alone.”

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About the Author

Born: January 11, 1973
Known for: Cricketer
Quotes: 38

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