If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

You cant go on winning all the time.

You cannot be happy if you constantly compete with others for public approval.

The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.