Yuvraj Singh Quotes

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

I usually tried to stay in the net for 45 minutes, half an hour longer than most batsmen would stick at the county nets. There was a reason for this so-called gluttony of practice: it was a conscious effort to make myself concentrate for long periods of time in circumstances as close to the real thing as I could make them.

I know how important it is that test cricket is my main focus.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

I want to play Test cricket until I die, seriously.

I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

My main focus is on my game.

I don't have certain kinds of fatigue. My focus stays strong - I can work on a song for six or seven hours in one day and not get bored or tired of it.

You can get suckered into believing you have to always be attacking with the bat, ball or fielding positions. But Test cricket is not always like that. There are times when it is a bit slow paced and even a bit boring.

I spent my time in Serie C: that's a league that grinds you down and spits you out.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

As long as I'm communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.