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 More Quotes by Rahul Dravid More Quotes From Rahul Dravid I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. Rahul Dravid perseverance failure sports No dream is ever chased alone. Rahul Dravid dream You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride Rahul Dravid pride revenge play 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 determination mistake thinking If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it. Rahul Dravid asks ifs Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate. Rahul Dravid grandchildren team running 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 victory personality doe You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select. Rahul Dravid fields games winning 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 answers years firsts 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 sadness team pride 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 skills games hands Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers Rahul Dravid bigger inspiration young I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself. Rahul Dravid i-am-what-i-am built 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 rage ends may Tendulkar must have known from his heart Rahul Dravid tendulkar known heart I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone. Rahul Dravid dream boys country Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity. Rahul Dravid publicity lucky people I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now. Rahul Dravid rupees would-be people He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy. Rahul Dravid epic leader example Reading allows me to recharge my batteries. Rahul Dravid batteries reading
