Dinesh Karthik Quotes

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.

I have no intention of making small bets.

Sometimes I can be a little bit cautious in keeping the ball, playing a safe pass rather than an adventurous one.

Pujara is not fashionable, he's very much old-fashioned - he's not great between the wickets and he's not a modern, extravagant, in-your-face character like Kohli, Dhawan or Pandya.

I have always liked to attack the bowlers, and batting is all about getting runs.

Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.

I think we stick with what we know.

I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.

In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.

If the keeper is standing up, in the fear of getting stumped, the batsman will not try to walk down the wicket to negate the swing.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

Floyd Mayweather, he's a safe fighter. He is who he is. He's not going to take any risks.

I don't like to follow someone, but I really like A B de Villiers as a batsman. I think he has got all the strokes and plays according to the situation.

You have T20 and that also plays a part in some of the shots batsmen play. You see guys playing the same shots in T20s and Tests and are sometimes lucky to get away with it.