Quotes by Rahul Dravid

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by peoples ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. Thats the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

If someone thinks, Ill spend the off season working on my fitness and Ill come back a better cricketer, I dont think thats enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

No dream is ever chased alone.