Ravi Shastri Quotes

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Ravi Shastri

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 27, 1962

The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.

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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.

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I always considered myself an allrounder.

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My batting took some time to develop - I was batting at No. 10 initially but my bowling took off.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.

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We live life in the present.

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Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.

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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.

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A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.

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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.

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It's always the captain's team and it is the leader who calls the shots.

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Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.

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Half the guys commenting on MS Dhoni can't even tie their shoelaces.

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The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

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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.

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How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

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