Words matter. These are the best P. R. Sreejesh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you play big matches there is a lot of pressure.
We are Asian champions, but we cannot take chances.
There’s a difference between a young goalkeeper and an experienced goalkeeper. In a pressure situation, an experienced goalkeeper can handle the situation in a calm manner.
If I’ve been disciplined through the week, on Sunday I treat myself to mutton biryani. I can have up to one kg of it for a meal.
Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn’t privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.
Before the injury hockey was everything in my life. Now I know even if I am out of hockey, there are other important things in life. I am confident, calmer and wiser now.
Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.
Experience. I have that in abundance and that is what I can share.
Even when following a strict training regimen, you’re allowed a couple of cheat meals.
The best part of a goalkeeper is that when you are the second choice you get to gain a lot of experience by sitting outside and watching.
When you are in the field you just need to give your best, it doesn’t matter whether you are the lone goalkeeper or not.
I believe Indian hockey itself is going through a major phase of transformation. We set our sight on winning the gold medal at the Asian Games. We have achieved that.
Goalkeepers are like wine, the longer you keep it, the better it tastes.
I never dreamt of captaining the team and leading the side in the Olympics. It’s a great honor.
I am a goalkeeper. My first duty is to save the goal. The second is to communicate with my defenders and organize them.
I always believe in trying something extra-ordinary and fighting against myself, gives me the biggest confidence boost.
Since 2012, we have had only consultant coaches. They fine-tuned my basics.
I know what was happening to me during the 2012 London Olympics. I was in a fantasy world. You look this side, Usain Bolt is walking, Serena Williams is sitting next to you and having food. So that is really a fantasy world for a youngster.
It’s difficult to love a goalkeeper. He is invisible, and is only in the limelight when he makes a blunder.
We have a very good history in hockey and when I look back into my own career, I know I do have a lot of FIH medals, I have medals almost in every tournament but not one in World Cup or Olympics.
We are better placed than Pakistan as we have been playing against top teams around the world. Pakistan on the other hand failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their history.
When I was young, I didn’t know who India’s goalkeeper was then.
Defender Birendra Lakra, unfortunately, had to miss Rio Olympics due to injury, but we had ready replacements – Harmanpreet Singh and Surender Kumar. They did better because they got the exposure of playing ahead of Olympics. That’s the magic of rotational system.
When I started my career I used to concede a lot of goals but still every one had faith in me, they kept motivating me.
So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.
Our shoes weather a lot of blows and sometimes a wrong movement can cause them to come apart in half.
A match against Pakistan is never an easy prospect – especially for goalkeepers in a penalty shootout. We can either become heroes or zeroes.
People in my state, Kerala, have started playing hockey, which is very pleasing to see.
Nothing is certain in a sportsperson’s life. There can be an injury, performance can go down, others can do better than me.
Sometimes I miss my family badly. In those weak moments, books come to my rescue because they help me think differently.
You can’t win tournaments just with youngsters. In important matches we need experience.
Being in the thick of things is a good thing.
Today I am a hero because of the saves. But If I had failed in saving the goal-bound shots in the Asiad finals, I would have been called a traitor.
When I got injured, when I did the surgery, I made a promise to myself: I will wear the India jersey again.
When you are with your team, you get the right motivation to work hard every day and get back to the field quickly.
It’s important that I stay positive in my messages during matches because the rest of the team is following the tone and tension in my voice. Nothing in my voice should let them down.
There is a lot of scope for improvement but as we enter the home stretch for the Olympic preparations, we know the biggest challenge for us is to remain consistent with our performances.
In inter-state tournaments, they used to make fun of my gear. It didn’t bother me. I had my body and my biggest weapon was my mind.
In the Olympics we are facing the toughest opponents in the world so that shows that you do have the chance to beat any team at any given day.
I was so hooked to ‘The Da Vinci Code’ that I jumped out of bed at 2 A. M., and could only go back to sleep after I’d finished the final few chapters.
I’ve set myself a target of four books a month.
Psychology is not a place where you get results overnight.
I like working out in the morning.
When you are stepping on the field as a hockey player you are part of a dream and being a team member you have your responsibilities, you have your duties.
It’s going to be a long, tough journey to the Olympics.
In the morning, I try to read self-help books and books on meditation.
The vamp, or the front of our shoes has to be a bit hard for the extra support because often during a save, our toe can end up jutting outside our leg guard.
I am up for challenges.
The first few years were quite hard for me. It took time for me to understand what exactly is international hockey.
We cannot say that Asian Champions Trophy is that easy a contest.
The best part of any game is that we forget all that happens outside the field when we play, it is a game and we give our best.
When I came to the national camp, I wore my pads to get the feel. I started to kick the ball, then stood in the pole and it felt positive. Since then, I am just focusing on making myself better than before.
I have a three-month-old daughter and I want to spend as much time with her as I can.
Your goal is to win a medal at the Olympics. The players who go into their second Olympics like me, know the agony of missing out on a medal.
I started watching my own videos, rectifying mistakes and talking to our coaches. But there is a limit to self-learning but the past 8-9 years have helped me become self-reliant.
