What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.'

- Martina Navratilova

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.