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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.

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Rahul Dravid
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 11
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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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If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride
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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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I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
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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.
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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.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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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.
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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.
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On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.
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Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers
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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.
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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.
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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.
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