Dinesh Karthik Quotes

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

I feel like, growing up, I haven't had a lot of room for error - I don't have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I'm just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.

When you play this game, you're not just playing for yourself and your fans. You also play for a name you have to represent. You have a family that's hoping you do good every single day.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the first team. It's not easy.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

It is important for me, no matter whether I lead or not, that I continue my form even in the World Cup. It is important that you get runs because people look up to you, and the team also expects you to get runs being a senior member of the side.

When you play for United, you have to perform every week.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

In Austria, everything is my fault when we lose. Whatever I do it's not enough.

Every time I enter the field, it's like, 'Smriti, you have to score.' And I love that responsibility.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

I mean, a guy can get 20 points a game. But if you are not winning, who's really paying attention? It's like, 'yeah, his game is nice. But I need to see him do it when it counts, when it really matters and something is on the line.'

Players sometimes don't want to have this heavy weight on their shoulders to carry the team or to get asked in certain situations to have that responsibility.

A lot of people expect a lot of things out of me.

But Liverpool is a big club, and expectations are high, so it is normal that you are going to be criticised.

You don't want to be the weak link or the person who lets other people down.

I know everyone wants to see India winning on home soil, be it in hockey or cricket. But sometimes with expectations come pressure, which can affect our performance.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

When you come to a club like Liverpool, you need to perform straight away and consistently.

A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.

You can be as good as you want with your feet, but when you're making mistakes, the opinions will change immediately.

I'm not afraid of expectations.