Words matter. These are the best Abhinav Bindra Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Pressure is a positive thing and it makes no difference on your performance if it is not there.
The beauty of having goals in life is that it drives you and when that is lost you lose a lot of meaning in life.
Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.
I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.
We shouldn’t be fixated to one sport. The Olympics come once in four years, and every athlete works very hard towards that. It’s so special in one’s career.
Sport is one part of life. There are so many things to life but I’ve done nothing. I’ve really done nothing else but focused on shooting.
Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.
I only wish the sport of shooting was more reachable and there were training centers all over the country where youngsters could go and try shooting.
My mother is a trained psychologist.
Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.
It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won a gold medal as well in Beijing. I have had a good run at the Olympics.
It’s not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.
I’ve never been to a disco in my life.
India has a large number of those who take up the sport of shooting. But it’s not enough to be content with the hotspots.
My success has given confidence to many others.
You can’t really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It’s absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.
I’m a Kareena Kapoor fan.
I’ve not been the most athletic person.
I’m quite a loser. I’ve done nothing in my life for the past 12 years. I’d just eat, sleep, run and do nothing except shooting.
It isn’t easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.
It is important to find a way to take sports forward. However, it is important to have certain stipulations in place like restriction in terms of age, tenure etc.
In shooting, you need to be dumb.
Sport is not maths.
Incorporating science, technology, engineering, analytics and medicine to athletes’ training and development not just at elite level but basing it right at the grassroots level is important.
I plan to establish my own academy.
I think we should follow the Olympic charter and the guidelines as the whole world is following it.
Reflecting back on my career, I was not a talented athlete at all. I had no competitiveness naturally, and was full of anxiety and panic all the time – something that’s certainly not needed for shooting.
Right from my childhood I have been attracted by guns.
The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.
10,000 athletes go and compete at an Olympic Games, only 300 go back with a gold medal, the number is very, very less.
An athlete is not a robot, not a machine. Wellbeing of athletes is absolute necessary.
I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.
The work that I have been doing revolved around prevention of injuries, proper rehabilitation, it revolved around well being and holistic approach.
When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.
Nobody will give a single rupee if you cannot match value in a professional way. For that, you need paid professionals.
When I was in school, before age 10 I hated any kind of sport.
It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.
It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That’s unfair as Olympic glory is a long path.
It is a big achievement to win a medal at the World Cup. Winning a medal is like doing well at Wimbledon, in tennis. It is one of the biggest shooting competitions in the world.
When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.
Rio is going to be my fifth Olympic games – it’s been a long journey but a rewarding one, I would say.
A lot needs to be done for Indian sport and with our potential we are nowhere near where we can be.
Once we take care of wellbeing of an athlete then performance will automatically come.
To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.
Sportspersons at the grassroots must get world class exposure in terms of coaches, facilities, physical trainers and mental trainers so that a strong foundation is laid at the base. That’s the key to success.
It’s ironic my biggest mental crisis in life came when I actually succeeded. A lot of people talked about dealing with failure, but for me, dealing with success was probably the hardest time in my life.
If I’m bored at home, I’ll probably just log on to ESPN.com.
The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.
I don’t know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.
To stand up to worldwide competition, we need a very strong set-up at home that produces athletes right from the beginner’s level and has the sustained back-up for the same athlete to finally go and win an Olympic medal.
I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to others.
Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.
I do believe the aura of the Olympics is the greatest platform for sport and when one achieves success there it is sure to fire up the imagination of the youth.
My having won a gold medal in Beijing is not going to be an extra advantage. It does not have any bearing on how I perform in London in a year’s time.
Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.
Absolutely, I think that during a course of my career, I had a long career in sport, I had many ups and downs.
I don’t think too far ahead of myself.
Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming into your sport globally, you’re not quite there.
When I started out as a 12-13 year old, it was a stupid idea. I remember when I went to try to get coached by Heinz Reinkemeier and my coach Gaby, when I went and met them, India was nowhere in shooting. They said, ‘you want to win a gold at the Olympics? Why don’t you ride an elephant back home?’
I have had a decent career.