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Rahul Dravid

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

— Rahul Dravid people

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

— Rahul Dravid hope

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

— Rahul Dravid sin

No dream is ever chased alone.

— Rahul Dravid dream

I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.

— Rahul Dravid self

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.

— Rahul Dravid books

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

— Rahul Dravid reading

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

— Rahul Dravid life

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

— Rahul Dravid men

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

— Rahul Dravid time

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

— Rahul Dravid talent

There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

— Rahul Dravid love

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

— Rahul Dravid success

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.

— Rahul Dravid people

I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

— Rahul Dravid art

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.

— Rahul Dravid time

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

— Rahul Dravid fear

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

— Rahul Dravid wit

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.

— Rahul Dravid life

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.

— Rahul Dravid school

I was lucky in my early years to play for a Karnataka team that was trying to forge itself into a strong side, and they were years of fun and learning. In the Indian team, I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era when India played some of its finest cricket at home and abroad.

— Rahul Dravid art

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.

— Rahul Dravid time

One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler's success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips.

— Rahul Dravid success

While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

— Rahul Dravid you

Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard.

— Rahul Dravid art

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by peoples ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. Thats the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

— Rahul Dravid people

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