Quotes About Resilience

With the new ball, against any bowler, it's important to see off the first few overs.

I began as a bowler and batting at No. 8 or 9 at Under-14, U-16 and U-19 levels, so to change myself was really difficult.

I feel England is the most difficult place for a bowler.

I don't think any bowler can trouble me much.

If there is nothing happening on the wicket, the bowler always thinks that he should not go for a boundary.

When a bowler comes on you want to put him under pressure. He might not allow you to do that but find a way.

If I can bat against someone who is bowling 145 kph on a challenging wicket - that confidence is really important.

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

You cannot be successful by just bowling yorkers.

I am actually learning to enjoy bowling, and I never thought I'd say that. I didn't enjoy it in the past because it hurt. It hurt my back or my ankle.

I had to go back and work on my bowling when I first came in. I was out of the team for three-four months before I came back into the ODI team again. I had to work on my bowling, which I did and the results are coming.

Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game is a home game. It doesn't matter what the pitch is, you have the ammunition.

If they come after me and my bowling you get a bit down. But when I am fielding I think about it and there are worse things that can happen. I take in the atmosphere a bit and think this is not too bad.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

Boxing has always been like a sanctuary for me. It's been a place that I could go and be somebody.

Boxing is always serious.

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.