Top 66 Ravi Shastri Quotes

I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.

Sometimes it might be the junior-most player in the team who may come up with a strategy which we hadn’t even thought of and we need to bring that to the table.

India has given too much emphasis on players’ records than on the actual performance of the team.

Life is much like batting, treating every ball on merit.

An ‘A’ grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.

I am a winner, man.

A coach’s role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

It’s a privilege and an honour to be a part of the Indian team setup.

Responsibility and accountability has to be taken by the top order.

My batting took some time to develop – I was batting at No. 10 initially but my bowling took off.

How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.

As long as we know the job we are doing and we are honest to our jobs, as long as support staff we are helping players channelise their energies in the right direction, we are not worried about what critics say.

Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.

In a side when you have 15 players there will always be times when there will be opinions that will be different. That is what is needed.

My job is to do exactly that with every player – to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game is a home game. It doesn’t matter what the pitch is, you have the ammunition.

Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.

It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I’m not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.

The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That’s put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who’s the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.

What my endeavour is to see a happy Indian team playing cricket.

I’ve been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don’t know what you can achieve.

You’ve got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.

I have little patience or time for nonsense that’s spread around.

When you are playing a Test match, you would like to be playing with your strongest side.

We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.

As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.

A few good words don’t just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.

Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don’t be scared of what if.

In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.

I like honeymoons. The more the merrier.

Individual don’t matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.

In Australia nothing comes easy. It’s one of the hardest places to play.

I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

I always considered myself an allrounder.

You know, when a fast bowler comes back after a series of five Test matches and then straightaway has to go into a one-day series with a three-day break, a T20 series with a one-day break, it is tough.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.

Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best out of me.

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of ‘white-ball cricket.’

I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.

Dhoni is a superstar. He is one of our greatest cricketers. When you have a career as glorious as that, you become a topic on television.

It’s always the captain’s team and it is the leader who calls the shots.

The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.

The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.

Half the guys commenting on MS Dhoni can’t even tie their shoelaces.

Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to discipline, training, sacrifice or self-denial, it is unbelievable.

Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.

I never want to shy away from a challenge.

You can’t sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.

I focus on the present.

The coach and support staff’s role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and if done effectively, it brings enjoyment to the player’s game.

You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.

I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.

We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.

When you are watching a cricket match, and a side is 140 for 5 and another 100 plus to get in trying conditions and when you get that without losing a wicket, not only is that entertainment, it shows all the qualities a sportsperson should have to reach the top level.

Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.

Virat is everywhere. He is hands on, and very communicative. That’s what you want in a captain.

The grade contracts of a Test player should be the highest.

It’s not worth scoring thousands of runs if your team keeps on losing.

Take up a challenge and treat it as an opportunity. Once you do that and succeed, all you want in life is more such opportunities.