The 3 Mistakes Of My Life Quotes
"This email is a combined suicide note and a confession letter. I have let people down and have no reason to live."
"My suicide is not a sentimental decision. As many around me know, I am a good businessman because I have little emotion."
"There are advantages in having a wife smarter than you. I could never be a detective."
"Life is tough when you are always talking to people smarter than you."
"I kept my promise. Don’t take it the wrong way. But do consider taking a bath."
"Don’t look at me like that. You must be angry. Sorry, I should not have written that mail."
"Shut up. There is nothing heroic in this. Cowards pop pills."
"You don’t just listen to stories to change the past. Sometimes, it is important to know what happened."
"I think human beings waste too much time on emotions."
"My heart is in business. I can’t change that."
"People have nightmares about monsters. I have nightmares about surprise maths tests."
"My job is to teach you maths, not to make you like it."
"The fight is created. That is why I am never big on religion or politics."
"Any long-term relationship requires reconciliatory mechanisms."
"The problem in Indian Hindu-Muslim rivalry is not that one is right and the other is wrong. It is that there are no reconciliatory mechanisms."
"In all this, they forget the real issue – why didn’t the manager provide two plates of food?"
"Just by not talking about it, the differences do not go away. The resentment brews and brews, and doesn’t come out until it is too late."
"Wisdom is free at the Team India Cricket Shop."
"We have to mobilize young people. Tell them our philosophy, warn them against the hypocrites."
"You think only you are the intellectual type. I am just a cricket coach."
"Lying down, well done. When rent is cheap, shopkeepers will sleep."
"We will make the deposit next month. Possession when it opens in three months. This two-bit shop is about to move to a prime location sports store."
"No one would say no to a spoonful of soil from Ayodhya. But with that, they were inadvertently buying into the cause. Sympathy for people fighting for Ayodhya would be automatic. And sympathy converted well into votes."
"You are my kids. How can you be indebted to your father?"
"Forget it, sons. You faced a calamity. Pay when you can."
"Business is down, but on the revised loan instalments... Forget it, sons."
"My sons," Mama said as he held a palm over our heads and blessed us.
"I realise my destiny is this shop. Maybe God intended it this way and I accept it."
"Most of the time crap happens in life. However, sometimes miracles do too."
"If everyone thinks that way, where will India's sportsmen come from?"
"Are you teaching your kids a subject called teamwork? Are you teaching them how to chase a goal with passion? Are you teaching them discipline? Are you teaching them focus?"
"Don't people work on computers? Nobody went blind watching TV from close."
"But talent is not distributed only among the rich. We have to expand the pool."
"What are you here to do? To give children an education."
"Right when you give up hope, they get you involved again."
"And all the education is in these books they read under the plastered roofs? What about the education that comes from sports?"
"Just go to Goa, manage your business, make money, insult people who don’t salivate for maths and don’t make any time for friends."
"The gods we pray to, stayed away from politics in their time. If we truly want to follow our gods, we must keep our religion separate from politics."
"We love to dominate opponents, but also love a fight. When there's a challenge, it brings out the best."
"Aussies saw the Montreal fiasco as a national shame. So the government set up the Australian Institute of Sports or the AIS and initiated the world's best scholarship programme."
"It is full on. Expert coaching, accommodation, travel to tournaments, sports science, medicine – you name it. And the best part is to be part of that community, where everyone has a singular commitment to their sport."
"You take a bit of talent and mould it properly, and good stuff happens."
"The game is not about being macho. You can't get caught up in the moment so much that you forget."
"Lose it, and you are gone. You must safeguard it."
"Bondi beach is so beautiful that it needs a coffee table book of its own."
"If you began to miss a girl thousands of miles away even with naked breasts around you, something is seriously wrong."
"Sometimes you kissed every time she solved a problem. At other times, we took a kissing break every fifteen minutes."
"Life is an optimisation problem, with tons of variables and constraints."
"When you believe in God, amazing things happen."
"Nobody believed in probability in emotional moments."
"Nothing in the world was always exactly on time."