Shikhar Dhawan Quotes

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

Do not read the newspapers.

I just try to stay cool, calm and collected.

I'm all about respect and I never get outside myself as far as calling people out.

I don't really read the papers.

I can't have friends in every port. I have to work very hard and be very clear about what I want to do. I cannot just swallow everything I am told. I have to decide what I want to become part of my luggage - and what I don't.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

That kind of always been apart of my personality, just mild-mannered, poised, trying to keep my poise. Doesn't always work out that way but I try when I'm on the court to stabilize things.

The most important thing I learned during games is to be calmer, to try to smooth over other people's or my own mistakes, and not to tackle people unnecessarily. Patience was key for me.

I always try to stay quiet and calm.

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

From my dad I learnt that it is very important to stay calm.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.