Virender Sehwag Quotes

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Virender Sehwag

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 20, 1978

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

Virender Sehwag

I have never hidden my injury before, or fitness problems. Even my shoulder operation was planned after consulting the then coach Gary Kirsten and skipper MS Dhoni.

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I don't like to party. I like to spend time with family on my birthday.

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Til the day I didn't play under-19 World Cup, nobody ever celebrated my birthday. And the moment I played for Indian team, my family got excited and ordered and cut a cake for me in front of 40-50 family members.

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I lose around a couple of crores every year on the school, but even if I was to make profit from it, I would never use it for myself. I'd plough every penny back into improving facilities for the school. Just as I do with the cricket academies I run around the country. These are not for making money; for that, I have other avenues.

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When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.

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I don't bother about image.

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Every coach desires to bring in his own support staff.

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I don't care whether I am politically correct or not when I tweet.

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No doubt, if you go through records, Dhoni is India's best captain to date. Beating Sourav Ganguly, he won the Tests, ODIs, and T20s, won both the World Cups. Nobody can deny that, but to give credit to a single person is not good; others should also get credit for winning the Cups.

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My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

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I love to score runs rather than defending or leaving the ball. That is an important aspect of my batting: I don't want to waste balls in any form of the game.

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There is no point playing in the IPL when I have retired from international cricket. I did not want a youngster to miss out because of me.

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As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

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Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

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If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

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The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

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To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I've played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.

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When I was a kid, my first dream was to play Test matches, and the second one was to play 100 Test matches because there are very few people who have played 100 Tests for India.

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When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

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