Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Abhinav Bindra - Page 2

No, I firmly believe in giving my place to another person. We have a lot of talent back home. I don't want to hang on for just the sake of hanging on.

When I started out as a 12-13 year old, it was a stupid idea. I remember when I went to try to get coached by Heinz Reinkemeier and my coach Gaby, when I went and met them, India was nowhere in shooting. They said, 'you want to win a gold at the Olympics? Why don't you ride an elephant back home?'

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

Performance in any sport can never be broken down into black and white. There's a lot of grey in the nature of sport.

I have had a decent career.

The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.

I think the real breakthrough will come when sport becomes a social activity, when a family chose sport over a movie on a Sunday afternoon and go and involve themselves in the sporting activity.

In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.

Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.

My success has given confidence to many others.

I do believe the aura of the Olympics is the greatest platform for sport and when one achieves success there it is sure to fire up the imagination of the youth.

Reflecting back on my career, I was not a talented athlete at all. I had no competitiveness naturally, and was full of anxiety and panic all the time - something that's certainly not needed for shooting.

Shoot-offs are always a lottery. Somebody wins, somebody loses.

I remember watching the 1992 Barcelona Games on TV, and I watched Limba Ram shoot. That was my first exposure to the Olympic Games.

It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.

If I'm bored at home, I'll probably just log on to ESPN.com.

My performance at Rio gave me closure. I did my best and could not have done any more.

I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.

It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won a gold medal as well in Beijing. I have had a good run at the Olympics.

In shooting, you need to be dumb.

Sport is not maths.

We shouldn't be fixated to one sport. The Olympics come once in four years, and every athlete works very hard towards that. It's so special in one's career.

Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming into your sport globally, you're not quite there.

I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to others.

My talent lies in my hard work.

My mother is a trained psychologist.

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

One must understand that shooting is a very individual sport and see what sort of coaching possibilities exist in the country and what their standards are. One of the issues that has been faced earlier by shooting athletes is that we have one odd national coach for whom it's impossible to give that sort of attention to say, a group of 30.

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

I was just trying to be immersed in my technique and I was actually immersed in it. That is the difference between really performing well and not performing well at the highest level.

It is my job to be composed.

Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.

I plan to establish my own academy.

I am happy with the way I shot and ended my career.

You can't really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It's absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

My life's attitude is simple: 'Make the best of what you have got. And move to the next. Thank God for what is coming my way and enjoy it completely.'

The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

India has a large number of those who take up the sport of shooting. But it's not enough to be content with the hotspots.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training