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Brian Lara

Profession : Cricketer

Birth : May 2, 1969

First of all my golfing experience spans all corners of the World - Brazil, New Zealand, L.A. And I think the best place is when you play with friends. I particularly enjoy playing golf with my best friend, former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke. It is the best experience when we can get together on a golf course.

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What you have to understand is that the first day I picked up a bat I made an impression on my older sister Agnes and my dad. It was about seeing people satisfied by what you're doing. I was creating a fan base.

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My dad made sure he gave me everything, he sacrificed what he had to, to make sure I had what I needed to perform at the best level.

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Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

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It doesn't matter how many runs one person puts together. We want to get partnerships and get 400 runs on the board. One person can't get 400 runs on the board if there is nobody at the other end.

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I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

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This is a moment I will cherish forever... the first man to score 500 runs.

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My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

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I fell in love with scoring a lot of runs. I never felt 50 or 100 were enough.

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With all franchise cricket going on around in the world, the intensity of the game, sometimes is a burden.

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When I wasn't doing well, I was too tough on myself but I truly tried to minimise it. So, I would always appreciate the fact that, things are not going to go well all the time.

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When I was a kid, Test was the form of the game everybody wanted to watch.

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It's good to have young players around you.

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I think Rohit Sharma is an awesome player in all varieties of the game.

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The highest-ranked team in the world has the responsibility to ensure that the integrity of the game is upheld every single time they play. And that the spirit of cricket is with them every time they enter the field.

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I've had many ups and downs in my career. I've worked really hard on my game throughout.

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It's an honour to captain the West Indies.

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When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.

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I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

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Cricket is my life and it has been since the age of five so the first opportunity I get, I'll be back playing for West Indies.

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