Ravi Shastri Quotes

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Ravi Shastri

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 27, 1962

There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.

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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.

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The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.

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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.

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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.

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India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

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It's not worth scoring thousands of runs if your team keeps on losing.

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If you have the leader under pressure always go for him. You need to get stuck in. You have to make the game as tough as you can.

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I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.

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We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.

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As long as we win more than we lose, we are happy.

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When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.

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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.

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I have little patience or time for nonsense that's spread around.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.

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Captains have their own personalities and the best ones make players adapt to their thinking and methods.

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In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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