Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Ravi Shastri
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian coach Ravi Shastri.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.
I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best out of me.
We have to do what's best for the team, as simple as that.
Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.
My batting took some time to develop - I was batting at No. 10 initially but my bowling took off.
A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.
Responsibility and accountability has to be taken by the top order.
You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.
When you are watching a cricket match, and a side is 140 for 5 and another 100 plus to get in trying conditions and when you get that without losing a wicket, not only is that entertainment, it shows all the qualities a sportsperson should have to reach the top level.
The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.
I love coverage, bring it on, as simple as that.
MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.
As long as we win more than we lose, we are happy.
Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.
As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.
How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.
The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.
Captains have their own personalities and the best ones make players adapt to their thinking and methods.
You can't sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.
The coach and support staff's role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and if done effectively, it brings enjoyment to the player's game.
I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.
Sometimes wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
I have little patience or time for nonsense that's spread around.
When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don't know what you can achieve.
Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.
It's always the captain's team and it is the leader who calls the shots.
The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.
I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.
In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.
I always considered myself an allrounder.
I am a winner, man.
There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.
There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.
As long as we know the job we are doing and we are honest to our jobs, as long as support staff we are helping players channelise their energies in the right direction, we are not worried about what critics say.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.
Half the guys commenting on MS Dhoni can't even tie their shoelaces.
You've got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.
India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.
You know, when a fast bowler comes back after a series of five Test matches and then straightaway has to go into a one-day series with a three-day break, a T20 series with a one-day break, it is tough.
When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.
In a side when you have 15 players there will always be times when there will be opinions that will be different. That is what is needed.
As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in mind as they have done exceptionally well.
I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.
The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That's put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who's the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.
Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.
We live life in the present.
Dhoni is a superstar. He is one of our greatest cricketers. When you have a career as glorious as that, you become a topic on television.
It's not worth scoring thousands of runs if your team keeps on losing.
Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, the respect they have for each other is unbelievable, so it makes my job in the dressing room so much easier.
If you have the leader under pressure always go for him. You need to get stuck in. You have to make the game as tough as you can.
It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him - he'll be a great batsman or bowler.
It's not that every time India play they will have their best team on the park because there are bound to be injuries and other factors.
Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game is a home game. It doesn't matter what the pitch is, you have the ammunition.
I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.
Life is much like batting, treating every ball on merit.
We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.
We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.
As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.
We are a country obsessed by records. For us, hundreds, ten thousand runs, and large haul of wickets are more important than the performance of the Indian team.
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