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Shoot-offs are always a lottery. Somebody wins, somebody loses.

I think we should follow the Olympic charter and the guidelines as the whole world is following it.

A lot needs to be done for Indian sport and with our potential we are nowhere near where we can be.

What the people in the country need is meeting of minds between similar philosophy for betterment and well being of people.

Right from my childhood I have been attracted by guns.

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.

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.

All you need to do is train, train and train. Keep working hard, harder and harder. That's the only thing you need to do.

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.

I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.

A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.

I cannot shoot for 40-50 hours a week.

Up until Beijing where I had my greatest victory, I had trained for 16 years of life with a singular goal and singular obsession that I wanted to win gold medal at the Olympics.

We want a clean and effective Olympic body where it can help us and Indian sports to grow and we athletes can represent our country and our flag once again.

It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

I remember watching the 1992 Barcelona Games on TV, and I watched Limba Ram shoot. That was my first exposure to the Olympic Games.

In shooting, you need to be dumb.

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.

The work that I have been doing revolved around prevention of injuries, proper rehabilitation, it revolved around well being and holistic approach.

I am happy with the way I shot and ended my career.

Performing at the highest level in sports requires adaptability.

Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.

One must understand that shooting is a very individual sport and see what sort of coaching possibilities exist in the country and what their standards are. One of the issues that has been faced earlier by shooting athletes is that we have one odd national coach for whom it's impossible to give that sort of attention to say, a group of 30.