Quotes About Career

World Cup 2003 was the worst phase in my career, but that is now behind me, and I am doing all-out efforts to get my place in the team back and further my career.

God helped me crown my football career with a participation in the World Cup.

A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.

It is the dream of every player. Imagine winning the World Cup in your own country. It would be the happiest day of my career.

After World Cup 2010 in South Africa I will no longer play for la Nazionale.

The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.

I became an India player in January 2009 and was therefore paid Rs 40 lakhs. However, in my contract, my category continued as a 2008 World Cup Under-19 player and my contract continued at Rs 20 lakh.

The cricket World Cup opened a lot of doors for me. People invite me to host shows and events.

It would be cool to win a World Cup, and I think it would be good for my career as well.

It was so disappointing the way it ended but, to play for England in the World Cup, was still the highlight of my career.

Vitesse was my hometown club. They helped me in my career. It was Vitesse who helped me get in to the national team squad in the first place, even if I didn't make the World Cup.

I remember anchoring the World Cup 2011 show when I was seven months pregnant! So, I don't think that my connect with cricket will ever end.

We have a very good history in hockey and when I look back into my own career, I know I do have a lot of FIH medals, I have medals almost in every tournament but not one in World Cup or Olympics.

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.

I'll be working till by last breath and would prefer to die on sets only.

My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.