Quotes

It's not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.

It is my job to be composed.

The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.

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.

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.

Shooting of course has certain challenges, especially in terms of safety aspects to be sorted and venues are far away from the scene of action.

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

I was just trying to be immersed in my technique and I was actually immersed in it. That is the difference between really performing well and not performing well at the highest level.

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.

It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.

10,000 athletes go and compete at an Olympic Games, only 300 go back with a gold medal, the number is very, very less.

My talent lies in my hard work.

My performance at Rio gave me closure. I did my best and could not have done any more.

I think the real breakthrough will come when sport becomes a social activity, when a family chose sport over a movie on a Sunday afternoon and go and involve themselves in the sporting activity.

Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.

My brother calls me penny wise, pound foolish.

I love putting myself in survival simulation. Whenever I get an off, I often go out for camping, and thanks to my brother who has taught me all the survival skills.

Mostly, when you are shooting for action or intimate scenes, and you need to hold them, it takes away the mood if you both are not in sync. I have faced such situations and I think having a good bond with your co-stars only adds value to the scene.

I like living on the edge.