Quotes by Ravi Shastri - Page 2

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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Balls
Mindset
Be Different
Opener
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Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Cricket
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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!!
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Bats
Gone
Long
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You've got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Bud
Detrimental
Eyebrows
Invites
Raises
Nip
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Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Clarity
Fearless
Made
Mind
Scared
What If
Once
Thought
Instincts
Means
Up
Trusting
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When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Dhoni
Games
Icons
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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
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Feelings
Half Empty
Surprising
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One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Cricket
Mere
Identities
Lens
Vastly
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Confidence
Belonging
Good Words
Next
Words
Also
Take
Day
Few
Forward
Give
Sense
Step
Step Forward
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Unbelievable
Dressing
Dressing Room
Ms
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Factors
Best Time Will
Injuries
Park
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Be Different
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Glorious
Superstar
Topic
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Determined
Opening
Attacks
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Mindsets
Tinker
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Strategy
Discussions
Encouraged
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Big Difference
Bowl
Extra
Toll
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Strategy
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Haul
Thousand
Hundreds
Runs
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Cricket
Soil
Ticket
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Discipline
Sacrifice
Self-denial
Unbelievable
Work Ethic
Dominate
Ethic
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Enjoyment
Staff
Effectively
Execute
Frame
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Good Luck
Luck
Good Great Game
Bowler
Formats
Ten Years
Whoever
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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.
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Ammunition
Bowling
Good Home Game
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Australian
Soil
Exceptionally
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Bowler
Matches
Three-Day
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Critics
Right Direction
Staff
Energies
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Cricket
Hammered
International
Non Stop
One Day
Spotlight
Case
Eats
Formats
Immediately
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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.
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Frame
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Coaching Staff
Cricket
Staff
Who Cares
Captain
Cares
Charge
Oversee
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Conditions
Cricket
Plus
Qualities
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Cricket
Economics
Look Game Me
Realise
To Survive
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Conditions
Cricket
Dominating
Each Day
Fascinating
Session
Turf
Backyard
Contest
Defending
Historically
Opponent
Picking
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Ambitious
Bombay
Cricket
Reckoned
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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.
Ravi Shastri / Cricketer
Boys
Determination
Team
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