Harbhajan Singh Quotes

Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home.

Preparation is not just about batting and bowling. You have to consider lots of things - the travel, the weather, the heat, the light, the sounds. You have to be comfortable with everything.

I have always wanted to play with top players and ICL has some of the best domestic players and the competition should be exciting.

It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

Only players can understand what it's like, travelling and playing every three days, it gets on top of you.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

In international cricket, the core group in most of the teams would remain same. So you know what's expected, but they will operate in different conditions, which is why the homework about conditions is the key.

As a cricketer, everybody has a dream to play for your country.

Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that's the kind of challenge I love to face.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

You can't just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you'll just be the same fighter every time, just more experienced.

At the beginning, I didn't want to arrive at a big team like Ferrari and say: 'Ok, I want the car like this' - I just wanted to try and adapt to the car and then see if I wanted to make some changes.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

When I was 21, I did not have that much pressure. I was sitting down on the bench... you know... cleaning Sir Vivian Richards's boots or doing something... getting ready to play international cricket.

When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.

For me personally, I think too much emphasis is put on, 'Okay, how cool are my moves?' and, 'How do I string them together?' 'How do I get this move in the match within this time limit?' and that's it.