Ravi Shastri

It's a privilege and an honour to be a part of the Indian team setup.

— Ravi Shastri

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

— Ravi Shastri

How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

— Ravi Shastri

I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best…

— Ravi Shastri

When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.

— Ravi Shastri

Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.

— Ravi Shastri

When you play the game, you want your mind clear. You want to be able to focus inwards without a care in…

— Ravi Shastri

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.

— Ravi Shastri

I have little patience or time for nonsense that's spread around.

— Ravi Shastri

If you have the leader under pressure always go for him. You need to get stuck in. You have to make the…

— Ravi Shastri

The coach and support staff's role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and…

— Ravi Shastri

As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned…

— Ravi Shastri

In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.

— Ravi Shastri

The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.

— Ravi Shastri

When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.

— Ravi Shastri

My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is…

— Ravi Shastri

Sometimes wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

— Ravi Shastri

I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player…

— Ravi Shastri

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

— Ravi Shastri

Virat is everywhere. He is hands on, and very communicative. That's what you want in a captain.

— Ravi Shastri

We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for…

— Ravi Shastri

I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

— Ravi Shastri

You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.

— Ravi Shastri

My batting took some time to develop - I was batting at No. 10 initially but my bowling took off.

— Ravi Shastri

It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game,…

— Ravi Shastri