Top 50 Jwala Gutta Quotes

The consistent support that singles player are getting is way more than doubles, it is 100:1. We hardly get any support, the only support we get is from the government but it is not enough if we have to perform consistently at the highest level.

I will let my racquet speak for myself.

I keep cracking jokes a lot.

China in sports is 100 years ahead of us, there’s no comparison.

Technically, I am not bad. What I needed to work on was mainly on fitness and my court coverage.

People tend to think I lack focus. This is probably something they conclude from my trendy dressing style or my hair color. They forget my wins. I guess it’s easy to forget.

I had to quit every favorite food of mine.

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.

I put on weight easily.

I like wearing everything, from dresses to jeans to saris.

Patience, self-belief and regularity are three qualities that would take a young player to great heights.

I’ve been a very self-dependent person.

I fight whenever I think I am right.

After this coronavirus thing, people started calling me half-corona on Twitter.

I’m a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word… but we need feminism in our country.

I don’t fear anything.

Why are foreign coaches not staying? There is internal politics and that is the reason why foreign coaches leave without completing their tenures. The reason is they don’t get the acknowledgement and feel disrespected, not just from the players but from the establishment, and I am an eyewitness to it.

I don’t court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

If not badminton, I would have played some other sport.

The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.

I really don’t remember my first meeting with Arif Sir.

I like to put in an effort to look presentable.

Unlike badminton playing major nations of the world, we never had a specialist doubles coach and so the discipline remained neglected.

Somehow I always make very few mistake when I am under pressure.

Being bold is being fearless and having an opinion about issues.

I can’t define it, but being in a relationship certainly helps individuals become better versions of themselves.

Now I know what to eat and what not to eat and I am getting to know my body better.

I’ve enjoyed my phase of playing women’s doubles.

Eight to ten hours in a day is the maximum you can give to a sport, any sport. After that, I should be free to do what I want.

I want to promote doubles, educate people and media about doubles.

I have grown up in a country where we are told that there is freedom of speech.

I have done nothing wrong as captain of the Delhi Krrish Smashers franchisee in the IBL.

No one on this earth can stop me from playing.

If you keep winning all the time, you may not learn a lot, but failure has a lot to teach.

Having children is a great responsibility, and I don’t want to have kids while I am still playing.

Then, girls have to deal with a degree of unfair scrutiny about their life outside sports. If we have good hair or look good, we are called glamorous and it is presumed that we are not focused on sports. Nowadays, even the sportsmen are glamorous, good-looking, but they never face such scrutiny.

I am vocal and I have had to pay a huge price for that.

I love dressing up and I love looking good.

For Indian players, qualifying for the Olympics is a feat in itself.

Getting a medal is not a small feat, irrespective of what color it is.

I was very different from other badminton players. I did not bring badminton home. I wouldn’t eat, sleep, drink badminton or talk about it to friends.

It is not fair; we live in such a hypocritical society where only film stars are supposed to dress up. It is almost like the shabbier you look, the more focused you are in your game.

People don’t take badminton seriously. When I played, people never took me seriously.

I don’t know many footballers except Maradona and Messi.

Doubles players achievement need to be highlighted.

Consistency is most important in international level and once you have it, you become a different player.

I mean, just because you weren’t raped doesn’t mean that rape culture doesn’t exist or that rapes don’t happen.

Before I have attended camps at many places such as Bangalore, Jalandhar, and after 2006 it has only been happening at the Gopichand academy in Hyderabad. I had no problems since I live there, but it is not fair. Why camps only in Hyderabad?

Hollywood’s Me Too campaign was massive. Do you think only those women who were harassed or sexually exploited were a part of the campaign? No. Everyone was a part of it, because until and unless you unite for a cause like this, nothing will change.

I am not afraid of losing at all.