Abhinav Bindra

“Growing up, I was not athletic.”

“Nobody will give a single rupee if you cannot match value in a professional way. For that, you need paid professionals.”

“My mother is a trained psychologist.”

“Shooting is a sport which has got us medals at the highest level in the last five to six years right from 2004. It's a testimony to the talents that we have.”

“When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.”

“The work that I have been doing revolved around prevention of injuries, proper rehabilitation, it revolved around well being and holistic approach.”

“I plan to establish my own academy.”

“The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.”

“It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won a gold medal as well in Beijing. I have had a good run at the Olympics.”

“I'm quite a loser. I've done nothing in my life for the past 12 years. I'd just eat, sleep, run and do nothing except shooting.”

“Right from my childhood I have been attracted by guns.”

“In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.”

“I don't think I was a naturally born talent, surely I had some natural attributes, which perhaps helped me in my sport, but generally speaking I wasn't competitive in nature.”

“It is a big achievement to win a medal at the World Cup. Winning a medal is like doing well at Wimbledon, in tennis. It is one of the biggest shooting competitions in the world.”

“Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.”

“A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.”

“I never had a good physical base.”

“The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.”

“I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.”

“Shooting of course has certain challenges, especially in terms of safety aspects to be sorted and venues are far away from the scene of action.”