Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

Do not be a stupid, unless someone is paying you to be.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.