Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Ravi Shastri - Page 2

What my endeavour is to see a happy Indian team playing cricket.

When you play the game, you want your mind clear. You want to be able to focus inwards without a care in the world for anything outside.

Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

The grade contracts of a Test player should be the highest.

My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

I never want to shy away from a challenge.

It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.

We want Indian cricket to carry on.

With Virat Kohli, what you see is what you get.

Virat is everywhere. He is hands on, and very communicative. That's what you want in a captain.

An 'A' grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.

I focus on the present.

Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.

When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.

Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.

If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to discipline, training, sacrifice or self-denial, it is unbelievable.

It's important to have the right mix of experience and youth.

I like honeymoons. The more the merrier.

In Australia nothing comes easy. It's one of the hardest places to play.

The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over five days - dominating each session, dominating each day, picking 20 wickets to win a contest. That's historically been cricket's most fascinating gift.

It's a privilege and an honour to be a part of the Indian team setup.

When you are playing a Test match, you would like to be playing with your strongest side.

You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

Take up a challenge and treat it as an opportunity. Once you do that and succeed, all you want in life is more such opportunities.

Sometimes it might be the junior-most player in the team who may come up with a strategy which we hadn't even thought of and we need to bring that to the table.

I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

Sometimes when you are playing non-stop international cricket in all formats - which was the case with Jadeja - you do well one day, get hammered the next, and immediately the spotlight is on you. That eats into you.

I am used to challenges, bring on another one.

Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.

Don’t change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he‘d be long gone!!

Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back…to Dhoni.

When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty