Quotes

• • 1.”It took a lot out of me to win. But more than anything, when you are goalless, you are listless in your life.”

• • 2.”The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.”

• • 3.”When I was in school, before age 10 I hated any kind of sport.”

• • 4.”It is important to find a way to take sports forward. However, it is important to have certain stipulations in place like restriction in terms of age, tenure etc.”

• • 5.”I’m quite a loser. I’ve done nothing in my life for the past 12 years. I’d just eat, sleep, run and do nothing except shooting.”

• • 6.”Pressure is a positive thing and it makes no difference on your performance if it is not there.”

• • 7.”It was many years ago when I started shooting and I took it up as a complete hobby and a pastime.”

• • 8.”When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.”

• • 9.”Shooting is a sport which has got us medals at the highest level in the last five to six years right from 2004. It’s a testimony to the talents that we have.”

• • 10.”Once we take care of wellbeing of an athlete then performance will automatically come.”

• • 11.”When you go to a shooting competition, you don’t know what medal you’re going to finish with.”

• • 12.”It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That’s unfair as Olympic glory is a long path.”

• • 13.”I believe that it is important, wherever possible, to lend a voice to help those in trying times.”

• • 14.”An athlete is not a robot, not a machine. Wellbeing of athletes is absolute necessary.”

• 15.”All you need to do is train, train and train. Keep working hard, harder and harder. That’s the only thing you need to do.”