104 Quotes by Abhinav Bindra

It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

You can't really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It's absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.

I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.

One must understand that shooting is a very individual sport and see what sort of coaching possibilities exist in the country and what their standards are. One of the issues that has been faced earlier by shooting athletes is that we have one odd national coach for whom it's impossible to give that sort of attention to say, a group of 30.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.

I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.

A lot needs to be done for Indian sport and with our potential we are nowhere near where we can be.