Sunil Manohar “Sunny” Gavaskar is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for the Bombay cricket team and India.
Quotes of Sunil Gavaskar:
1. Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
2. When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.
3. We need to emphasize to the up-and-coming youngsters the importance of physical fitness — though I do not believe that physical fitness is the be-all and end-all — but train them in such a way that they are prepared, once they go on to the national level and then at the international level, to cope with it.
4. I think the main thing that you learn is never to lose heart — that it is a cycle. Sometimes, the opposition is simply better than you, and you have to give credit to the fact that they might have just played better than you. Then you try and analyze how you could have improved or bettered your performance, [how] you could have been more competitive, and when you do that, you tend to be able to find out where you went wrong.
5. I think there are people who need a bit of guidance, in which case you call them in and you tell them, “Look, this is maybe the way to do it rather than that way.” And there are guys who are better left alone, because they might stumble a little here and there, but at the end of the day they have the ability to get up and to do what you want them to do.
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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