Top 60 Abhinav Bindra Quotes

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Pressure is a positive thing and it makes no difference

Pressure is a positive thing and it makes no difference on your performance if it is not there.
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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.
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Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.
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I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.
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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.
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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.
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Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.
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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.
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My mother is a trained psychologist.
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Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.
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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.
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It’s not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.
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I’ve never been to a disco in my life.
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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.
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My success has given confidence to many others.
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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.
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I’m a Kareena Kapoor fan.
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I’ve not been the most athletic person.
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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.
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It isn’t easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.
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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.
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In shooting, you need to be dumb.
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Sport is not maths.
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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.
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I plan to establish my own academy.
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I think we should follow the Olympic charter and the guidelines as the whole world is following it.
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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.
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Right from my childhood I have been attracted by guns.
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The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.
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10,000 athletes go and compete at an Olympic Games, only 300 go back with a gold medal, the number is very, very less.
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An athlete is not a robot, not a machine. Wellbeing of athletes is absolute necessary.
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I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed i

I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.
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The work that I have been doing revolved around prevention of injuries, proper rehabilitation, it revolved around well being and holistic approach.
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When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.
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Nobody will give a single rupee if you cannot match value in a professional way. For that, you need paid professionals.
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When I was in school, before age 10 I hated any kind of sport.
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It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.
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It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That’s unfair as Olympic glory is a long path.
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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.
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When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.
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Rio is going to be my fifth Olympic games – it’s been a long journey but a rewarding one, I would say.
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A lot needs to be done for Indian sport and with our potential we are nowhere near where we can be.
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Once we take care of wellbeing of an athlete then performance will automatically come.
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To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.
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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.
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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.
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If I’m bored at home, I’ll probably just log on to ESPN.com.
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The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.
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I don’t know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.
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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.
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I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to others.
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Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.
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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.
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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.
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Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.
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Absolutely, I think that during a course of my career, I had a long career in sport, I had many ups and downs.
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I don’t think too far ahead of myself.
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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.
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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?’
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I have had a decent career.
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