Quotes About Progress

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

We have to do more than tell women they need sponsors. We have to identify high-potential women by name and strategically map them to those who can help them get to the next level.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Cricket is such a sport that you get to learn something from someone every day.

You're never perfect in this sport; there is always something to learn.

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

You either grow with this sport, or you get left behind. It's sad, but it is what it is. You gotta keep up with this sport.

I'm not going backwards in this sport ever, especially in pay. Why would I?

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

A lot needs to be done for Indian sport and with our potential we are nowhere near where we can be.

Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.

Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.

As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

What we have seen is that sports is definitely developing in India. I can see a lot of positive things happening in India. It may take a bit more time, but with proper guidance and people having passion for sports, I don't think we are far away from becoming a good sporting nation.

Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

In sports, everything is a process.

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.

I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sportsman and as a person.

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.