Many think that elite athletes like me are taken care of. But that is not true, only a few like Sindhu are looked after well.
Physically, when you are fit, mentally you are more alert and confident.
In fact, I am a bit apprehensive about biopics on sporting personalities in our country after seeing a few films. But my biopic is not going to be the same; it's completely different.
If I lose a match, I don't get sad or feel down. But if I lose a close match, I surely have sleepless nights.
If you keep winning all the time, you may not learn a lot, but failure has a lot to teach.
I stopped playing mixed doubles and there is no result in mixed doubles. I was world number six. People who are talking about me and my performance and questioning my career and my achievements, where is the next mixed doubles pair, please show it to me. I would like to know.
Being a player, I am supposed to train and practice and only think about my game, what I have to develop and what weaknesses I have to take care of.
In doubles there was nobody before me. I have changed how people look at doubles.
I have done nothing wrong as captain of the Delhi Krrish Smashers franchisee in the IBL.
I don't expect people to understand, but as players who love the sport and have constantly been thrown a rock at by our association and now the Govt, there is only so much one can take.
Consistency is most important in international level and once you have it, you become a different player.
Unlike badminton playing major nations of the world, we never had a specialist doubles coach and so the discipline remained neglected.
I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.
I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying. I feel proud.
Mina Kimes
When the Japanese occupied Korea in the early 20th century, they brought their passion for baseball with them, and the game swiftly surpassed basketball and soccer as the nation’s pre-eminent sport.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Gitmo is everywhere in the world. We need to raise awareness of illegal prisons in Middle East, Asia, and Africa. This needs to be brought to the attention of the U.N. This needs to stop.
Mike Webster
I didn’t start playing football on a team until 11th grade. I only got to go out then because the coach brought me home from practice.
Rory MacDonald
I enjoy martial arts. I love to compete, I love to be at the top. I mean that’s why I started in this… I want to let people known what the Lord blessed me with. He changed my circumstances and brought it to an amazing place. And continues to do so.
Sussanne Khan
We were four kids and my father and mother brought us up with very strong values. We weren’t spoilt at all.
Annamie Paul
Collaboration and collegiality does not mean bowing down. It doesn’t mean being brought to heel.
Tulsi Kumar
Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it.
Stacey Solomon
My family practised our faith in a relaxed manner. My mum Fiona was brought up a Christian; her dad was a vicar. But she fell in love with my dad David and converted to Judaism to be with him.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
The Premier League is a competitive league where strikers can be brought in for x amount of pounds and it might block your pathway as a young player. To go abroad, if it gives you the opportunity to play at the highest level in that country then I think it’s a no-brainer.
Melissa Leong
I believe in being able to reserve things to yourself. That’s the way I was brought up.
Jessica Andrade
The day I retire, I want other women to look at me and say: ‘Man, Jessica was awesome, funny and a lesbian. She threw so many punches and brought us lots of joy.’
Bugzy Malone
I’ve got an audience now. They found me. I didn’t go looking for them. I feel my music brought them all in.
Tony Kanal
We’re a vegan family, and my kids were brought up vegan, with a respect for all species, and we don’t, as humans, have the right to exploit those species.
Rick Stein
I was brought up on a farm in Oxford but my parents always had a flat in London, and we’d go to pretty smart restaurants, so it’s always seemed important to eat well.
Liz Mitchell
Even in the Caribbean, we enjoy a good curry because that’s what India brought to the Caribbean.
Gok Wan
I was brought up in a restaurant, I’ve worked in catering my whole life up until I was 20 full-time almost, I was a chef for my dad for many years.
Gregg Wallace
Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London – I didn’t have a privileged or wealthy upbringing – but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded.
Denise Lewis
My mum taught me to work hard. I was born when she was only 17 and she brought me up on her own.
Denny Hamlin
Danica Patrick, even if she was not super successful results-wise, did a lot for our sport and its visibility. That was an element that fans really did appreciate, and it brought some awareness and different eyes to out sport.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
In her heart my mother much preferred the intense few days of shelling, which brought freedom, to the languishing fear she felt every time she stood by waiting for the Nazi troops and later for the SS to march by, singing their songs of victory and supremacy.
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