Quotes from Abhinav Bindra

I believe that it is important, wherever possible, to lend a voice to help those in trying times.

Performance in any sport can never be broken down into black and white. There's a lot of grey in the nature of sport.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

I've never been to a disco in my life.

I was just trying to be immersed in my technique and I was actually immersed in it. That is the difference between really performing well and not performing well at the highest level.

I'm a Kareena Kapoor fan.

I don't think too far ahead of myself.

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

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

One must understand that shooting is a very individual sport and see what sort of coaching possibilities exist in the country and what their standards are. One of the issues that has been faced earlier by shooting athletes is that we have one odd national coach for whom it's impossible to give that sort of attention to say, a group of 30.

Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming into your sport globally, you're not quite there.

It is important to find a way to take sports forward. However, it is important to have certain stipulations in place like restriction in terms of age, tenure etc.

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.

It took a lot out of me to win. But more than anything, when you are goalless, you are listless in your life.

Up until Beijing where I had my greatest victory, I had trained for 16 years of life with a singular goal and singular obsession that I wanted to win gold medal at the Olympics.

It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.

When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.

Shoot-offs are always a lottery. Somebody wins, somebody loses.

My life's attitude is simple: 'Make the best of what you have got. And move to the next. Thank God for what is coming my way and enjoy it completely.'

My success has given confidence to many others.

The beauty of having goals in life is that it drives you and when that is lost you lose a lot of meaning in life.

It's not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.

I think the real breakthrough will come when sport becomes a social activity, when a family chose sport over a movie on a Sunday afternoon and go and involve themselves in the sporting activity.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.