"To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the first on any ladder of success."
"If you could not get a goal from that you did not deserve to be on my team. "
"It is not my country’s duty to push me ahead. It is my duty to push my country ahead."
"Nowadays I hear of the princely comforts provided for national teams traveling overseas, and fuss players raise if they happen to miss even a cup of tea! When we used to travel the name of our country and the game were the only two things that mattered."
"It looks like he has some invisible magnet stuck to his hockey stick so that the ball does not leave it at all.”
"When I die, the world will cry, but India's people will not shed a tear for me. I know them."
Hockey is not just a game, it's a way of life."