QUOTES by Ravi Shastri
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You've got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.
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The coach and support staff's role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and if done effectively, it brings enjoyment to the player's game.
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It's not that every time India play they will have their best team on the park because there are bound to be injuries and other factors.
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My batting took some time to develop - I was batting at No. 10 initially but my bowling took off.
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I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.
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Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.
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You can't sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.
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I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.
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As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.
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A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.
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As long as we know the job we are doing and we are honest to our jobs, as long as support staff we are helping players channelise their energies in the right direction, we are not worried about what critics say.
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Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to discipline, training, sacrifice or self-denial, it is unbelievable.
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MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.
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Dhoni is a superstar. He is one of our greatest cricketers. When you have a career as glorious as that, you become a topic on television.
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Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.
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If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.
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You know, when a fast bowler comes back after a series of five Test matches and then straightaway has to go into a one-day series with a three-day break, a T20 series with a one-day break, it is tough.
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Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game is a home game. It doesn't matter what the pitch is, you have the ammunition.
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Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, the respect they have for each other is unbelievable, so it makes my job in the dressing room so much easier.
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Virat is everywhere. He is hands on, and very communicative. That's what you want in a captain.
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We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.
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As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.
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When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.
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There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.
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It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.
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In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.
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One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'
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I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.
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As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in mind as they have done exceptionally well.
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The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.
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