Zitat des Tages von Harsha Bhogle:
Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.
Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.
Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
Cliches are cliches because they are true.
I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.
Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.
Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
