Abhinav Bindra

I'm a Kareena Kapoor fan.

— Abhinav Bindra

Growing up, I was not athletic.

— Abhinav Bindra

I have had a decent career.

— Abhinav Bindra

My talent lies in my hard work.

— Abhinav Bindra

It is my job to be composed.

— Abhinav Bindra

In shooting, you need to be dumb.

— Abhinav Bindra

Sport is not maths.

— Abhinav Bindra

I plan to establish my own academy.

— Abhinav Bindra

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

— Abhinav Bindra

I don't think too far ahead of myself.

— Abhinav Bindra

A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.

— Abhinav Bindra

The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.

— Abhinav Bindra

Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.

— Abhinav Bindra

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

— Abhinav Bindra

If I'm bored at home, I'll probably just log on to ESPN.com.

— Abhinav Bindra

When I was in school, before age 10 I hated any kind of sport.

— Abhinav Bindra

It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That's unfair as Olympic glory is a long…

— Abhinav Bindra

I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to…

— Abhinav Bindra

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

— Abhinav Bindra

Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.

— Abhinav Bindra

I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.

— Abhinav Bindra

But post my victory in Beijing, I actually wanted to quit sport and move on to something else in life.

— Abhinav Bindra

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

— Abhinav Bindra

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

— Abhinav Bindra

It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won…

— Abhinav Bindra

Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming…

— Abhinav Bindra

We shouldn't be fixated to one sport. The Olympics come once in four years, and every athlete works very hard towards that.…

— Abhinav Bindra

In my case it was a sustained effort. I was fortunate to have the backing of my parents to start off with…

— Abhinav Bindra

I was just trying to be immersed in my technique and I was actually immersed in it. That is the difference between…

— Abhinav Bindra

It is important to find a way to take sports forward. However, it is important to have certain stipulations in place like…

— Abhinav Bindra

Shooting is a sport which has got us medals at the highest level in the last five to six years right from…

— Abhinav Bindra

After I won in Beijing I chatted with a lot of Indian athletes and they were interested and keen to know what…

— Abhinav Bindra

One must understand that shooting is a very individual sport and see what sort of coaching possibilities exist in the country and…

— Abhinav Bindra

My mother is a trained psychologist.

— Abhinav Bindra

I never had a good physical base.

— Abhinav Bindra

I left my sport when I knew I had nothing more to give.

— Abhinav Bindra

I cannot shoot for 40-50 hours a week.

— Abhinav Bindra

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

— Abhinav Bindra

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

— Abhinav Bindra

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

— Abhinav Bindra