Geeta Phogat Quotes

I have more respect for amateur wrestlers, especially collegiate ones, than anyone else. It's a gutsy sport with no real payoff except for knowing that you were better than someone else. It doesn't have big crowds, it doesn't have big money, but it is fun going one on one.

I wanted to be a world champion.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Football is everything for me in my life.

What matters is that on the pitch we give the maximum to prove that money is not everything.

To me, wrestling always comes first.

No matter what the competition is, we're not going to take it easy. We're going to fight for it and try and win as much silverware as we can.

Football is so intense you don't have time to sit back and look at what you have achieved.

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.

I'll do anything to get a place in the national team.

I want my team to win.

Personally, what goes beyond sport, you have to put to one side. You need the best to win trophies.

For me, I want to win the World Cup. If that's not the goal then I don't think you should be playing.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

Winning is a serious matter.

I always put my boxing first.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.